Berlin (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Alexander Dobrindt, the German interior minister, hopes the European Union can come to a consensus on returning unsuccessful asylum seekers who are unable to return to secure nations close to their home countries.
On the promise of reducing immigration, which many voters believed to be out of control despite the fact that numbers had been down for more than a year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz‘s conservatives won the country’s national election in February.
How is Germany urging EU-wide asylum return deals?
In a Saturday discussion with the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the German minister stated that the use of third countries could only be executed if there was an arrangement across the EU.
“We need third countries willing to accept migrants who are genuinely unable to return to their home nations,”
Dobrindt said.
“No an individual European Union member state can develop this model independently, but it will ultimately need to happen on a European Union-wide scale level,”
Dobrindt stated.
“We are laying the groundwork for that, just right now.”
When Dobrindt took office, he initially promised to strengthen border controls, which upset neighbors who were protesting his plans to deport migrants found to be without the right to enter Germany.
How might the new EU plan change asylum rules?
Earlier this month, the European Commission proposed a plan to make it easier for EU member states to reject asylum requests from migrants who traveled through a “safe third country” before reaching the EU, even if the migrants have no direct connection to that country. This plan strives to accelerate asylum guidelines and ease pressure on European Union asylum procedures by widening the application of the safe third nation vision.
The current EU law requires a link (such as family ties or prior stay) between the asylum seeker and the safe third country to apply the concept.
How did Italy and the UK face migrant policy setbacks?
On the other hand, due to protests from Italian courts, an Italian effort to process asylum applicants who were rescued at sea in Albania has been halted. When Prime Minister Keir Starmer assumed office last year, he abandoned a plan by Britain, which is not a member of the EU, and its previous Conservative administration to deport asylum seekers who entered the country illegally to Rwanda.
