Germany’s likely new coalition agrees on harsh crackdown on migration amid far-right surge

The first round of the coalition negotiations has been concluded, but there are still many issues in internal security and migration. What does this mean for the course of the new government?

Germany's next government could make it easier to strip citizenship from dual nationals

A future coalition of the CDU/CSU and SPD is reportedly mulling over plans to "de-naturalise" dual nationals for holding extremist or anti-semitic views. How far could the new rules go - and are they even allowed under German law?

The results of the negotiations of several working groups of CDU, CSU and SPD have now become public. The paper of the working group "Innen, Recht, Migration und Integration" confirms what had already become clear: a political change in the sense of the German population should and will not exist. Although Union and SPD are still divided on individual points – a critical point, however, shows that one is fully on one line in the abolition of dem…

Union and SPD want a "turnaround in internal security." In many cases they agree, even in the case of rejections. Another sentence contains explosive power.

Germany’s likely new coalition agrees on harsh crackdown on migration amid far-right surge

CDU and SPD, two key parties of the likely coalition, have settled on a broad package of measures aimed at curbing immigration. These include a rise in detention capacity for migrants awaiting deportation, two-year freeze on family reunifications, and expansion of list of 'safe' countries

Asylum seekers should be able to be rejected at the borders, according to a paper from the coalition negotiations. Four other states should be classified as safe countries of origin. Chancellor Scholz and his ministers receive their release certificates.