Germany’s wire rope act with the asylum topic – Diepresse.com
The ambassadors of the neighboring countries should be calmed down at a meeting in the Ministry of the Interior. An asylum law expert expects complaints against Germany’s new asylum course.
Berlin. On Wednesday evening, May 7th, an email ends up in the mailbox of all ambassadors for neighboring German countries. Subject: « Short -term meeting in the Federal Ministry of the Interior on May 8, 2025 ». Only a few hours after the CSU politician Alexander Dobrindt moved into the Ministry of the Interior, he makes you serious. His mandate: to implement the asylum seeker, which Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) has announced. Before that, Dobrindt has already ordered thousands of additional police officers to the German borders.
The coalition agreement between the Union and the SPD states that rejections at the borders will also be carried out « in coordination with our European neighbors ». The neighboring countries has agreed that people who are looking for asylum for asylum without examination for the first time since the highlight of the 2015 refugee movement. So therefore the diplomatic pronunciation in the Ministry of the Interior. On Thursday afternoon, the State Secretary, Bernd Krösser, who was responsible for migration issues, tried to calm down the representatives of the neighboring countries. The message: The existing measures at the borders are reinforced, even smaller border overhangs are more controlled.
