Germany wants the EU to take over a Rwanda style refugee program

Germany wants the EU to take over a Rwanda style refugee program

According to reports, Germany is reported to accept an agreement based on the British model, in which asylum seekers are deported to Rwanda while being processed.

Berlin plays a "leading role" to work for a deal with a non-EU state in order to filter out migrants who had little chance of asylum, the newspaper "Die Welt".

Rwanda and Niger both would be considered as partner countries and would receive financial compensation in return, according to the report.

While hardliners such as Austria and Hungary want asylum seekers want to be deported to an African partner country regardless of their origin, Berlin is said to limit this process to people who have stayed in the countries during their asy skate where they would be exported.

Berlin takes a tightrope walk in the EU negotiations on a new immigration system, since backbenchers in the coalition of Olaf Scholz fear that the purpose of the agreement is to prevent refugees from entry to Europe.

This week 24 MPs from the Social Democrats and the Greens around Mr. Scholz signed a letter in which they ask Berlin to stand up for the rights of migrants.

In view of the increasing number of refugees, Mr. Scholz and Nancy Faeser, his Interior Minister, are determined to enforce an agreement.

Ms. Faeser warned in the run -up to the discussions about the costs of a failure.

"If we fail today or in the next fourteen days, that would be a bad signal that would lead to countries isolating." I don't want that, I want to keep the limits open, ”she said.

"For us in Germany, human rights standards are in the foreground, and I will fight hard for that today," she added.

The Social Democrats, the largest party in a triple coalition with the Greens and the economic -friendly Free Democrats, are willing to support changes that would lead to migrants being held at the EU's external borders.

The number of asylum applications in Germany has already reached 130,000 this year and the local administrations state that their capacities are exhausted for the accommodation of the newcomers.

In May, Mr. Scholz announced that he would break and try to reduce the numbers for Frontex, the border control agency of the EU, with the liberal policy he had inherited from Angela Merkel and try to reduce the numbers through stricter border controls and more money for Frontex

This new course has led to fears that Mr. Scholz will be willing to sacrifice fair asylum procedures in the name of numbers.

The letter from the backbencher states: "We share the worry of many people that the proposals for a new common European asylum system could weaken the right to asylum."

Regardless of this, 730 members of the Greens signed a letter in which they demand a change of course of their leadership.

You said that they were "shocked" about the suggestions negotiated in Brussels, which aimed at creating a new system for "deterrent and exclusion".

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Source: The telegraph