{"id":9284,"date":"2025-04-10T23:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9284\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T23:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T23:30:16","slug":"germany-will-turn-away-asylum-seekers-at-its-borders-showing-uk-how-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9284\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany will turn away asylum seekers at its borders – showing UK how | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany<\/a> has announced it will turn asylum seekers away from its borders as part of a raft of new measures to curb illegal migration agreed by the nation’s incoming coalition government. The new rules will see asylum seekers refused entry at Germany’s land borders.<\/p>\n

It comes as Germany\u2019s incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz<\/a>, promised a \u201crepatriation offensive\u201d against illegal immigrants<\/a>. The coalition deal, finalised this week, includes a raft of pledges aimed at restoring economic confidence, boosting defence spending and tightening immigration controls. Mr Merz said: \u201cGermany will suspend family reunifications for many migrants, designate more \u2018safe countries of origin\u2019, and launch a return offensive for rejected asylum seekers.”<\/p>\n

In a highly significant move, he confirmed the country will also start turning people back at its borders \u2013 in coordination with neighbouring states.<\/p>\n

Berlin appears poised to act swiftly under a broad-ranging deal that still requires final approval by party members.<\/p>\n

The coalition will also roll back parts of Germany\u2019s recent citizenship law reform, scrapping the option for some applicants to fast-track naturalisation after just three years.<\/p>\n

Before Merz can take the helm, the coalition deal needs approval in a ballot of the Social Democrats\u2019 membership and by a convention on April 28 of Merz\u2019s Christian Democratic Union party.<\/p>\n

Once those hurdles are cleared, the lower house of parliament \u2014 in which the allies have 328 of the 630 seats \u2014 can elect him as Chancellor.<\/p>\n

Mr Merz said the deal is \u201ca very strong and clear signal to the people of our country, and also a clear signal to our partners in the European Union<\/a>: Germany is getting a government that is capable of acting and will act strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alongside the new migration strategy, Mr Merz aims to revitalise the EU\u2019s largest economy.<\/p>\n

He plans to incentivise investment, reduce the size of the federal administration, and slash taxes on electricity and corporate profits. He also committed to meeting NATO\u2019s defence spending target, promising to strengthen Germany\u2019s commitment to its allies.<\/p>\n

Mr Merz said: \u201cGermany is back on track. We will bring the European Union<\/a> forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United Kingdom continues to face significant challenges concerning migrant arrivals, particularly across the English Channel.<\/p>\n

In the first quarter of 2025, provisional Home Office figures recorded 5,847 such arrivals, surpassing the 5,435 documented during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n

An increase of approximately 36% compared to the previous year underscores the persistent nature of the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany has announced it will turn asylum seekers away from its borders as part of a raft of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2527,2000,299,1824,6325,40,5804,6326],"class_list":["post-9284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-illegal-migration","tag-immigration","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-turbo-naturalisation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114316274842489407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284","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=9284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}