A very symbolic first decision. After an election that almost resorted to Fiasco, the new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz asked his Interior Minister on May 7, the systematic repression of undocumented asylum seekers who appear on German borders.
The only exception to this new rule: “Groups of vulnerable people such as pregnant children and women,” said Alexander Dobrindt, the minister in charge of the file.
The fight against illegal immigration, new priority
The decision, which is not a surprise, however, marks a turning point. Since 2015, in the midst of a migration crisis, Germany has largely opened its doors, under the leadership of Angela Merkel, of the CDU, as well as Friedrichz Merz.
At the top of his reception policy, he had received up to one million people, mainly Syria and Afghan. At that time, the border police were allowed to let people pass without the identity title or the asylum application made in form and due.
But the legislative campaign last winter changed the situation, against a clear impulse of the extreme right. Friedrich Merz had already announced the color in his program by fighting illegal immigration one of his priorities.
Since last September, Berlin had already restored the border controls of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Denmark for a period of 6 months. Since then, the device has been renewed.
A country traumatized by a wave of attacks
Acclaimed by the president of the deputies RN Marine Le Pen, the European Law makes it possible to restore without requesting the agreement of its controls of controls on their own borders. However, they must take place in a specific context and not be able to apply in the long term.
In fact, if the decision made by Friedrich Merz was establishing in the duration, the European Commission would consider it as an obstacle to the principle of free movement.
But the country has been traumatized by several events in recent months, of a Syrian asylum applicant who has killed 3 people in autumn in autumn through a psychiatrist of Saudi origin who hastened to the crowd of the multitude of the multitude of the multitude ofA Christmas market in Magdeburg And an attack against a lamp that made 36 wounded in Munich 10 days for the legislative elections.
However, Germany has been less affected by terrorism for years than its European neighbors. These events have German opinion deeply shaken in recent monthscausing an unexpected approach between Friedrich Merz, then the candidate of the conservative right and the AFD (Für Deutschland Alternative), thus breaking a world of the World Wars after the second.
“Opening” of the country
The restoration of the controls decided this Wednesday, therefore, confirms the turn taken by Berlin with its migration policy, after having been an isolated voice for years in Europe for its reception.
Between 2022 and 2023, these are One million Ukrainian exiles who found refuge on the other side of the Rhine. Germany remains the country that hosts with the largest number of asylum applicants in Europe, with almost 330,000 lawsuits for the first time registered in 2023, much ahead of Spain (160,460) and France (145,095).
In a country with a very aging demography, the coalition contract signed between conservatives and social democrats also establishes that Germany remains an “open” country, which is still looking for qualified workers.
Source: BFM TV
