Police officers carry out inspections at the German-Danish border.© Getty Images / Marcus Goleszewski
The fresh German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announces a state of emergency to solve the country's migration problems, reports Die Welt.
Merz, who was elected Chancellor on Tuesday, told the first day of office that his government would begin to send illegal migrants to the border.Germany remains the main mark for asylum seekers in the EU.
Last year they received a 4th (more than 237 000) of all asylum applications in a 27-member block.Berlin has already informed the ambassadors of neighboring countries about the Chancellor's decision to introduce a state of emergency, reports the paper in the article on Thursday.According to Die Welt, this decision would let the German government to prioritise its own decisions on EU regulations.To reject migrants, Berlin will mention to Article 72 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which provides for "maintenance of public order and protection of interior security" by associate States.Germany has a 3,700 km land border with 9 countries, including Poland, Austria, France and the Netherlands.
They are all part of the EU's Schengen area, which allows the majority of EU citizens and many non-EU citizens to travel without a passport.On Wednesday, the recently appointed Minister of the Interior of Germany, Alexander Dobrindt, told journalists: “We will control the borders more closely”, which will lead to ‘more rejections’ asylum applications.The goal is to "Sending a clear message to the planet and Europe that policies in Germany have changed" – explained.In a letter that Bild saw, Dobrindt ordered the head of national police to ignore the 2015 Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2015 directive, which at the highest of the exile crisis in Europe in 2015-2016 allowed more than a million migrants to enter the country.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/617155-germany-merz-emergency-immigration/
