The next Chancellor Friedrich Mertz appears determined to limit asylum applications in Germany under 100,000 a year
In Germany asylum applications decreased in about halfway through by about 230,000. Speaking on the “Caren Miosga” show on ARD public television, he said, among other things, that “we want to drastically reduce the number. Asylum applications should no longer be six. Municipalities, communities, schools, hospitals and infrastructure have now reached their limits. “
The Conservative Government Agreement and Social Democrats states that the government will intensify the repatriation procedures of those who have no right to stay and at the same time freeze families. Once again, the president of the Christian Democrats emphasized that his goal is not to allow the country to enter the country of those who do not have the required documents. “This will happen,” said Friedrich Mertz, adding that coordination with neighboring countries has already begun, whose cooperation he considers: “I suppose the Austrian government is also interested, as we do, to solve the problem.”
Flights with dozens of Afghans to Germany
Last year 229,751 people asked for asylum in Germany. It was about 100,000 less than in 2023. At the beginning of the negotiations with the Social Democrats for the formation of a government in early March, Friedrich Mertz had said in an interview that Germany was able to manage up to 100,000 asylum applications per year. Then SPD leader Lars Clningbail had accused the Christian Union of populism.
In the few weeks remaining until the expected election of Friedrich Mertz in the federal parliament on May 6, Germany will receive dozens of Afghan refugees with three special flights from Pakistan on April 23 and 29.
They are former workers in German institutions in Afghanistan, before the Taliban dominance, as well as people whose lives are in danger, such as human rights lawyers or activists in favor of women’s rights.
In a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Christian Democratic Minister of the Interior of Saxony, Armin Schuster reacted angrily, speaking to the German News Agency (DPA): “Political dignity imposes on a federal government to do so, and to do so,
The CDU, CSU and SPD government agreement notes: “We will end as far as possible voluntary reception programs and we will not develop new ones.”
Sources: dpa, tagesschau.de
Source :Skai
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