A stricter immigration policy has worked.
Compared to last year, the number of asylum applications in Germany fell by 23 percent this year. The German Minister of the Interior assessed this as a successful tightening of the immigration policy. Nancy Faeser announced: they will continue the official action against illegal immigration and will introduce the new Common European Asylum System as quickly as possible, writes Euractiv.
In September, Germany reinstated checks on people and goods at the German borders, requesting a temporary exemption from the rules for checking the free internal borders of the Schengen area.
According to data published by the German Federal Office for Migration and Asylum on Tuesday, the number of asylum applications has probably also decreased in connection with this: while a year ago, in September 2023, there were 27,889, this September only 18,113 foreigners applied for asylum in the territory of the German state.
The Berlin government plans to introduce accelerated asylum procedures so that those who are not entitled to asylum can be sent back as soon as possible to the first safe EU country where they first entered the EU.
At the same time, Germany is still the EU country where most migrants want to go, the most asylum applications are submitted here, 171,000 asylum applications have been submitted to the German authorities so far this year.
Friedrich Merz, head of the CDU, believed that the German care system was still overburdened,
therefore, a further reduction in the number of immigrants, so that according to the Dublin rules, migrants trying to get to Germany from the first safe country should already be sent back from the German border.
Cover photo: A man is pulled over by the police at the main train station in Cologne
Source: MTI/EPA/Sascha Steinbach
