Norway introduces temporary border checks after terror threat level raised

OSLO, NORWAY — 

Norway is introducing impermanent borderline checks connected its frontiers with different Western European nations aft the home information bureau raised the panic menace level, constabulary said Saturday.

The checks volition use until October 22, according to a constabulary statement.

It cited “a challenging menace picture” and the October 8 announcement by the information bureau PST that it was expanding Norway's menace level from “moderate” to “high,” the second-highest level connected a five-tier scale. PST pointed to an accrued menace to Jewish and Israeli targets successful particular.

Norway isn't a subordinate of the European Union, but the state is portion of the European ID-check free-travel portion known arsenic the Schengen area. It has onshore borders with EU and Schengen members Sweden and Finland.

The border-free Schengen country guarantees escaped question to much than 425 cardinal EU citizens, on with non-EU nationals surviving successful the EU oregon visiting the EU arsenic tourists, arsenic speech students oregon for concern purposes. That escaped question of radical is said to alteration EU citizens to travel, enactment and unrecorded successful an EU state without peculiar formalities.

The Schengen country encompasses astir EU countries, with the exceptions of Cyprus and Ireland. Bulgaria and Romania are the newest countries to articulation the Schengen area, arsenic of March 2024, meaning immoderate idiosyncratic crossing the interior aerial and oversea borders volition nary longer beryllium taxable to checks.

Norway constabulary said that the caller impermanent controls won't impact each travelers being checked, and that there's nary crushed to expect delays astatine borderline crossings.