{"id":307000,"date":"2025-07-31T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307000\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:20:10","slug":"germany-is-now-leading-the-charge-on-europes-anti-immigration-turn-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307000\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany is now leading the charge on Europe\u2019s anti-immigration turn \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a highly symbolic example<\/a> of how Germany\u2019s government is now seeking to propel Europe\u2019s migration shift rather than moderate it, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt recently hosted counterparts from several European countries with tough migration stances \u2014\u00a0including Austria, Denmark and Poland \u2014 on his country\u2019s highest mountain in the Bavarian Alps, the Zugspitze, adorned at its summit with a golden cross.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make it clear that Germany is no longer in the brakeman\u2019s cab when it comes to migration issues in Europe but is part of the driving force,\u201d Dobrindt said at an elevation of nearly 3,000 meters.<\/p>\n

That message is being received well in Brussels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Germany contributes more, becomes more committed, that\u2019s very, very positive, because we\u2019ll simply make progress faster,\u201d EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner told POLITICO from the sidelines of the summit in Bavaria. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I\u2019m very pleased that the German government has chosen this path and is also strongly supporting the Commission in implementing the things we\u2019ve put forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s new willingness to lead Europe\u2019s anti-immigration front removes one key obstacle preventing European countries from enacting policy proposals that were until recently deemed beyond the pale. Those include plans to deport migrants to third countries and to process asylum claims outside the EU, emulating the U.K.\u2019s failed Rwanda scheme<\/a>, which Merz previously praised<\/a> as \u201csomething we could emulate.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Germany\u2019s migration shift began under its previous left-leaning government, Merz\u2019s coalition, under rising pressure from the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) \u2014\u00a0now the largest opposition party<\/a> in Germany\u2019s Bundestag \u2014 \u00a0is taking a far harder course to stem the defection of conservative voters to the far right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a highly symbolic example of how Germany\u2019s government is now seeking to propel Europe\u2019s migration shift rather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[26054,2881,10592,13402,5108,7907,768,6178,6215,30,3032,6906,365,12495,2000,299,36,1945,1824,2440,2199,25809,48802,6657,809,5111,770,46,48,6500,6863],"class_list":{"0":"post-307000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-abortion","9":"tag-afghanistan","10":"tag-alexander-dobrindt","11":"tag-angela-merkel","12":"tag-asylum","13":"tag-austria","14":"tag-borders","15":"tag-conflict","16":"tag-cooperation","17":"tag-courts","18":"tag-czech-republic","19":"tag-democratic-party","20":"tag-denmark","21":"tag-development","22":"tag-eu","23":"tag-europe","24":"tag-france","25":"tag-friedrich-merz","26":"tag-germany","27":"tag-giorgia-meloni","28":"tag-italy","29":"tag-mayors","30":"tag-mette-frederiksen","31":"tag-migration","32":"tag-negotiations","33":"tag-parliament","34":"tag-poland","35":"tag-policy","36":"tag-rights","37":"tag-syria","38":"tag-visas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114948762841766947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307000","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=307000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}