On Monday evening, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke out in favor of limiting the number of migrants in Germany. This requires common controls at the external borders between EU countries and testing procedures at the external borders.
“We have to limit access, there’s no question about that,” Steinmeier said. This can only be achieved if the German government carries out external border controls with the other European member states (see video above). Testing procedures would be needed immediately at the borders; people without asylum rights should be deported directly from there.
“If we can get this arrangement right, and thank God we are now on track, the number of arrivals in Germany will also decrease,” the German Federal President is convinced.
More and more asylum applications are currently being submitted in Germany. From January to August, 22,000 people registered for the first time, 77 percent more than in the same period last year. “The number of refugees wanting to come to Germany is currently too high,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) said in an interview this weekend.
Status of migration agreements
The government sees agreements with countries of origin as another central element in limiting migration numbers. They are intended to enable people without the right to remain in Germany to return to their country of origin and to regulate the immigration of skilled workers into the German labor market. Such agreements are currently being negotiated with at least six countries. “Georgia, Moldova, Kenya, Colombia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan can currently be mentioned,” the Interior Ministry said.
There have now been declarations of intent with Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, but so far very few asylum seekers have come to Germany from the two former Soviet republics. According to statistics from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, from January to August there were 60 from Kyrgyzstan and 100 from Uzbekistan. Kenya (272 applications), Colombia (2,037 applications) and Moldova (2,124) are also not among the most important countries in the EU. origin. Georgia (7405) is slightly higher in the statistics.
“It only works gradually”
“This only happens gradually. We cannot now work on 20 countries at the same time,” said the Special Representative in charge, Joachim Stamp. He started working on February 1, 2023. Shortly before that, a first migration agreement was signed with the Indian government, which has been in force since March.
If refugee policy remains a perennially controversial issue even after the state elections in Hesse and Bavaria (next Sunday, note), others would benefit, Steinmeier warned – without mentioning the AfD by name.
Source: Krone
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