{"id":326435,"date":"2025-08-07T23:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326435\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:37:17","slug":"germany-to-extend-beefed-up-border-checks-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326435\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to extend beefed-up border checks \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Berlin court ruled in June that the government\u2019s push to turn away asylum-seekers at its borders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/court-german-rejects-ruling-friedrich-merz-migration-europe-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violates European law<\/a>. Dobrindt, however, challenged the scope of the court\u2019s decision, suggesting it only applied to the three Somalis mentioned in that case.<\/p>\n<p>Dobrindt\u2019s migration shift is an apparent attempt to deliver on the conservatives\u2019 campaign pledges to radically restrict the flow of asylum-seekers into Germany. Center-right Chancellor Friedrich Merz made those promises under pressure from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/german-election-2025-results-alice-weidel-afd-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surged in the polls on an anti-immigration message ahead of the Feb. 23 snap election<\/a> and is now the largest opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMigration policy has changed in Germany,\u201d said Dobrindt on the podcast. \u201cThis is being observed worldwide, and has led to a new dynamic in the EU with regard to changes in migration policy,\u201d he continued. \u201cGermany is now back on the team, working to curb illegal migration, rather than sitting in the brake house,\u201d added Dobrindt \u2014 who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-is-now-leading-the-charge-on-europes-anti-immigration-turn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vying to lead Europe\u2019s anti-immigration turn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative Bavarian politician also said on the podcast that he is working on further deportation flights for criminal offenders from Syria and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-July, 81 Afghan nationals with failed asylum claims and criminal convictions were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmi.bund.de\/SharedDocs\/pressemitteilungen\/DE\/2025\/07\/leipzig.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deported<\/a> via Qatar. To facilitate further deportations, the government in Berlin has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/politik\/taliban-sollen-konsularbeamte-nach-deutschland-entsenden-110597785.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allowed two envoys from the ruling Taliban regime<\/a> to work at diplomatic missions in Germany, according to media reports. This hints at possible restoration of diplomatic relations between Berlin and Kabul after all ties were cut following the Taliban\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-seize-kabul-504749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">takeover in the summer of 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Berlin court ruled in June that the government\u2019s push to turn away asylum-seekers at its borders violates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2881,10592,5108,768,30,33,2000,299,1945,1824,6657,6860,6500],"class_list":{"0":"post-326435","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-borders","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-friedrich-merz","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-migration","19":"tag-qatar","20":"tag-syria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114990117225947834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326435","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=326435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}