Germany's incoming government agrees to get tougher on illegal migration
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 9, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 9, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
Germany's new government plans stricter measures on illegal migration, including rejecting asylum seekers at borders and deportations to Syria.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's future government of conservatives and centre-left Social Democrats on Wednesday agreed on measures aimed at curbing illegal migration, including rejecting asylum seekers at borders, enabling deportations to Syria and suspending family reunions.
The parties want to suspend family reunification for people with a so-called subsidiary protection status for two years and to end all federal admissions programmes for refugees and not establish new programmes in the future, according to the coalition agreement document.
Asylum seekers will be rejected at the land borders in coordination with European neighbours, the document said, as migration was a key issue in the national election, following a rise of the far right and several high-profile attacks by migrants.
The future government wants to deport people to Syria and Afghanistan, starting with criminals and potentially dangerous persons and will abolish the "turbo naturalization" of migrants after three years of stay, but will maintain the citizenship reforms introduced by the previous government.
(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa, editing by Thomas Seythal)
The main topic is Germany's new government policies on illegal migration, including stricter border controls and deportations.
The government plans to reject asylum seekers at borders, deport criminals to Syria and Afghanistan, and suspend family reunifications.
Migration became a key issue due to the rise of the far right and high-profile attacks by migrants in Germany.
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