{"id":38009,"date":"2025-04-21T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38009\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:54:18","slug":"next-german-government-agrees-to-radical-toughening-of-migration-policy-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38009\/","title":{"rendered":"Next German government agrees to radical toughening of migration policy \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement would represent Germany\u2019s strictest migration policies in decades. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came second in the election on Feb. 23 and is likely to become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-far-right-alternative-for-germany-afd-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rowdy opposition voice<\/a> in the forthcoming parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Some aspects of migration policy are not agreed, however. So far, the SPD is rejecting CDU demands to set up asylum processing and return centers in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Away from migration, the two parties haven\u2019t yet agreed on defense spending. The CDU is pushing to radically increase German investment to 3.5 percent target \u2014 far above NATO\u2019s 2 percent target \u2014 which would move Germany up the ranks of global military powers, with major implications for European defense. While the SPD says it recognizes the need to strengthen the country\u2019s armed forces, it doesn\u2019t want to go that far.<\/p>\n<p>As U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to weaken America\u2019s protection of Europe, Merz\u2019s party is also pressing for the reintroduction of compulsory of military service. At this stage, the Social Democrats want to keep it voluntary. Germany got rid of compulsory military service for men in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0drafts\u00a0come\u00a0from\u00a0cross-party working groups tackling policy areas.\u00a0The groups were asked to submit their drafts on Monday, after which the respective leadership\u00a0teams would\u00a0enter final negotiations to stitch together a unified coalition agreement. Both sides\u00a0previously\u00a0publicly said they aim to conclude talks by Easter,\u00a0but have since become less ambitious, saying content is more important than speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The agreement would represent Germany\u2019s strictest migration policies in decades. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2741,5108,473,32,33,2000,299,7058,1105,1945,7336,1824,730,6657,2597,6489,809,5111,46,5806,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-38009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-algeria","9":"tag-asylum","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european-defense","16":"tag-far-right","17":"tag-friedrich-merz","18":"tag-german-election-2025","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-india","21":"tag-migration","22":"tag-military","23":"tag-morocco","24":"tag-negotiations","25":"tag-parliament","26":"tag-policy","27":"tag-tunisia","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114375351632676801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38009","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=38009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}