How abroad looks at the stricter German asylum policy
It is probably the most visible sign of the political change in the country – and one of the points that now leads directly to the dispute with the European neighbors. Germany builds the Controls at its limits Noticeable and uses sharper rules. Asylum seekers are also to be rejected from now on. The step is at least controversial in European law. So far, every asylum application that has been applied to the border has been checked. That should now be omitted. Therefore, the criticism that comes from the neighboring countries is correspondingly loud. You feel about the German approach. The new one had Federal government Your step already announced, but an agreement with the neighbors was not made.
“Systematic rejections at the border violate from the perspective of Switzerland against applicable law. Switzerland regrets that Germany has taken these measures without consultation, ”wrote the Swiss Ministry of Justice on the platform X. The Schengen area must be kept together. Justice Minister Beat Jans has already proposed a meeting at the ministry level. He has not yet commented on how Switzerland wants to deal with rejected asylum seekers.
Border controls: Poland expresses significant criticism
Also in Poland If the German plan to reject asylum seekers is criticized by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. « Germany will let them go to its area. Whoever it wants. Poland will only let them in his area, » said Tusk surprisingly clearly when the new Chancellor Friedrich Merz. « If someone introduces control on the Polish border, Poland will also introduce such control. And in the long run, it simply makes no sense. » Tusk pointed out that his country would wear a heavy load with the guarding of the EU’s outer border. The election is made in Poland in a week.
The Ministry of the Interior in Vienna also insisted on compliance with the applicable EU law.
Controls at the limits have been around for several years. So far, however, only people with a reinforcement lock – for example after a deportation – and people without a visa who do not express asylum are rejected. If a migrant expresses an asylum application, it has to be checked at least so far. Then it turns out that another state would be responsible the migrants are shown. But that has failed so far. In 2024, Germany had asked a total of 74,583 cases to be transferred to an EU country-actually transferred 5,827. The EU countries often refuse. The so-called Dublin regulations states that the state is responsible for processing the asylum procedure in which the refugee first entered EU floor. EU law is also broken at this point.
Asylum policy: What does German law say?
Germany therefore hopes for a kind of domino effect. So far, many refugees want to enter the Federal Republic and are therefore not stopped in other EU countries. However, if Germany closes its limits, the pressure on first-class countries such as Italy and Greece will eventually increase-and consequently, according to the political hope, the compulsion to guard the EU’s external border more sharply.
The new Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt Paragraph 18 of the German Asylum Act sees as the basis for the new sharpness on the German borders. This expressly provides the possibility of rejections when entering a safe third country. But German law is overlaid by EU law, which provides for a review of the asylum application. It is therefore eagerly awaited how courts at some point comment on the changed procedure. (with dpa)
