The German cabinet on Wednesday approved several measures to tighten the shelter laws of Germany, including plans to make it easier to determine the “safe countries of origin” and thus rejected asylum.This comes after another policy placed by the Internal Minister Alexander Dobridate-the police allows to send refugee back to the border without assessing their matters according to the Dublin procedure-was considered illegal by the administrative court in Berlin.
What did the cabinet decide?
Dobridate, a conservative politician of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), wants to make the government fully responsible in the future, to decide which countries should be classified as “safe countries of origin”.Under his plan, there will be no approval from the upper house of the Parliament of Germany, or the Bundesrat, which represents 16 federal states, will need to decide whether there is harassment in the country that will justify giving refuge to people from there. This will reduce the number of people eligible for shelter and make it easy to reject shelter-wishes in their home countries if they were placed in the “safe” category.The cabinet also approved the elimination of a rule calling for people in pre-vidrana custody, which could automatically be assigned a lawyer by the state. The rule was adopted under the coalition government led by the previous Social Democrat at the behest of the Green Party.Talking to reporters in Berlin, Dobrid said, “These are essential steps that are part of a whole fleet of measures to bring about refuge change.” The correction approved by the cabinet, which all contained in the coalition agreement of the government, still require approval by the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament.
difficult Migration policy Faces legal challenges
Chancellor Frederick Merz, who leads the current German coalition government of his conservative CDU/CSU block with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), has vowed irregular migration to the irregular migration. Their efforts were shocked by the court verdict on the border pushback on Monday, but vowed to continue the policy “within the current European law structure”.
Criticism from legal experts, human rights groups:
Further criticism has also come from legal experts and human rights groups.The German Bar Association (DAV) on Wednesday argued that the proposed reforms of the rules controlling the definition of “safe countries” would unnecessarily complicate asylum regulations.DVA expert Christoff Tomatten for migration law said that because the employed reform applies to the law of the European Union and not the right to refuge in the German Constitution, “unnecessarily complex discrimination” will be done by administration and courts.This would mean that the proceedings of the refuge can be longer rather than decreasing, he said.He was referring to the fact that the German Constitution needs to join Bundesrat in classifying “safe countries”, while a guidelines of an European Union allow member states to define them by decree – a guideline that the German government is taking to argue on its case.The German refugee advocacy group Prof. Sharan called the government’s actions “undemocratic and constitutionally suspected”.The organization spokesperson on legal policy, Wiebke Judith said, “Determination of allegedly secured countries of the original and third countries makes it more difficult for endangered people to achieve security they are really entitled.”
