{"id":238046,"date":"2025-07-04T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238046\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:06:10","slug":"berlin-calls-europes-immigration-hard-liners-to-summit-on-asylum-rules-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238046\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin calls Europe\u2019s immigration hard-liners to summit on asylum rules \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of the summit is a declaration containing concrete ideas \u2014 including on border protection and deporting rejected asylum-seekers to so-called third countries, or countries outside the EU \u2014 that are to be jointly pushed forward at the European level, according to the interior ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Germany was long among the EU countries with a more liberal approach toward migration. But the current government, led by Merz, has vowed to drastically cut the inflow of asylum-seekers under pressure from the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the largest opposition party in Germany\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Just days after taking office this spring, Merz\u2019s interior minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-new-border-policy-interior-minister-alexander-dobrindt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beefed up checks on Germany\u2019s borders<\/a> and vowed German police would turn away undocumented immigrants, including asylum-seekers \u2014 a move most experts <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rumeliobserver\/status\/1940041103966708222\" target=\"_blank\">deemed against EU law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The border crackdown fomented tensions between Germany and its neighbors, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/warsaw-criticizes-tougher-border-controls-incoming-german-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">politicians in France, Poland and Austria criticizing Merz\u2019s government<\/a> for inhibiting the free movement of people and goods within the Schengen Area. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Warsaw\u2019s patience with Germany \u201cis becoming exhausted\u201d as he announced new<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-impose-border-checks-with-germany-lithuania-donald-tusk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> checks on his country\u2019s borders<\/a>\u00a0with Germany and Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>Dobrindt and Merz defended the national border checks by arguing they are a temporary step while they work toward migration reforms on the EU level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The aim of the summit is a declaration containing concrete ideas \u2014 including on border protection and deporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2881,10592,5108,7907,768,6215,3032,365,5898,2000,7335,299,36,1945,1824,4582,1114,23906,6657,5111,45,770,6658,48,34589],"class_list":{"0":"post-238046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-alexander-dobrindt","10":"tag-asylum","11":"tag-austria","12":"tag-borders","13":"tag-cooperation","14":"tag-czech-republic","15":"tag-denmark","16":"tag-donald-tusk","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-eu-commission","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-france","21":"tag-friedrich-merz","22":"tag-germany","23":"tag-human-rights","24":"tag-lithuania","25":"tag-magnus-brunner","26":"tag-migration","27":"tag-parliament","28":"tag-playbook","29":"tag-poland","30":"tag-refugees","31":"tag-rights","32":"tag-schengen-area"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114796297352466525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}