Germany has temporarily suspended the group deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers following the Kabul truck bomb attack, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday. The foreign ministry would reassess security in the country by July, and until then Germany would carry out only “voluntarily repatriations and deportations of violent extremists and criminals in individual cases,” she … Read more
German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a setback Friday when the upper house of parliament rejected a proposal to declare three North African states “safe countries of origin” in refugee law. The proposed designation for Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco aimed to make it easier for Germany to deny asylum requests from their citizens on the grounds … Read more
Germany will speed up expulsions of rejected asylum seekers under measures agreed by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet Wednesday, as controversy raged over sending people back to strife-torn Afghanistan. Under the new measures, immigration agency officials will in future also be allowed to access applicants’ smartphones in certain cases to help determine their identity and country … Read more