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Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz intends to declare a state of emergency on migration, Euronews confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Government officials have told Euronews that Merz wants to declare a national emergency to step up the increased deportations of people attempting to enter Germany illegally via a safe EU country.<\/p>\n
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Merz and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt want to invoke Article 72 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. <\/p>\n
This would mean that national law would apply to border protection and internal security with immediate effect. <\/p>\n
However, Brussels would first have to decide on this. <\/p>\n
Ambassadors of neighbouring countries are being briefed by the interior ministry about the move, the paper said.<\/p>\n
But it is not immediately clear when the national emergency is set to begin.<\/p>\n
Government sources told Euronews that the interior ministry is already making extensive preparations for the state of emergency. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Dobrindt said he had instructed federal police to tighten border controls with the aim of turning back more irregular migrants, including those who intended to seek asylum.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will control the borders more strictly\u2026will also lead to a higher number of rejections,\u201d Dobrindt said less than a day after being sworn into office.<\/p>\n
However, Dobrindt said that vulnerable people, including children and pregnant women, would not be turned back at the border.<\/p>\n
Those plans attracted criticism from both Poland and Austria, and their legality has been questioned by some experts. <\/p>\n
But it’s widely considered that Merz declaring a state of emergency means he protects himself against legal challenges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz intends to declare a state of emergency on migration, Euronews confirmed on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1945,11070,1824,5805,8097],"class_list":{"0":"post-85993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-friedrich-merz","11":"tag-german-politics","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-migrants","14":"tag-state-of-emergency"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114475079128672124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85993","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=85993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}