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IMK boss Stübgen requires abolition of asylum legislation

In the migration debate, Brandenburg's Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) is in favor of abolishing the precise to asylum in its present kind. “The individual right to asylum is no longer necessary in the Basic Law because, according to the rules of the Geneva Refugee Convention, we already grant protection to people who are persecuted,” the chairman of the Interior Ministers' Conference (IMK) informed the “Handelsblatt”. “That is why I am in favor of anchoring the Geneva Refugee Convention as an institutional guarantee in the Basic Law.”

Stübgen made the suggestion a number of days earlier than the state elections in his state, that are additionally marked by a potential AfD victory. Without the precise to asylum, it could be potential to introduce refugee quotas, the inside politician emphasised. “We will then decide who comes to our country. And we can determine to what extent we can accept and integrate migrants.” Similar proposals have already been made by the Union. However, Stübgen doesn’t appear to assume the probabilities of a change to the structure are excessive: “That's why we are now concentrating on what is feasible.”

Stübgen: First decide nationwide emergency

The minister known as for a nationwide emergency to be declared so that folks in search of safety may very well be turned again on the borders. He is satisfied that that is legally potential, even when the variety of new arrivals is at present declining, he informed the newspaper. “The burdens are no longer bearable.” In order for the rejections to achieve success, negotiations should be held with neighboring international locations.

“I would recommend that Foreign Minister (Annalena) Baerbock flies a little less to Israel and talks a little more with our neighboring countries about how to deal with it if we declare an emergency,” he mentioned, referring to the Green politician. Poland and Austria have already sharply criticized the potential rejection of asylum seekers at their borders with Germany, which the Union has been calling for for a while.

Until now, the follow was for asylum seekers to be checked on the border to see whether or not they had already submitted or may have submitted a corresponding software in one other EU nation. According to the so-called Dublin process, they might then be returned there with the consent of that nation. However, this vital consent is usually not granted and the asylum seekers stay in Germany.

dpa