US EditionGermany Updates: Berlin to End Migrant Rescue NGO Funding
- On June 26, 2025, Germany’s conservative-led administration announced it will discontinue financial support for NGOs involved in saving people attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
- This decision follows a crackdown on irregular migration by Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government, aiming to redirect resources to source countries.
- In previous years, the government allocated roughly €2 million annually to NGOs involved in migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean, including organisations like Sea-Eye, SOS Humanity, and SOS Mediterranee, which have collectively saved more than 175,000 individuals since 2015.
- Sea-Eye chairman Gorden Isler called the funding cut a "catastrophic signal" and warned the NGO might have to stay in port despite emergencies at sea.
- Opposition parties, including the Greens, criticized the move, saying it will worsen the humanitarian crisis and increase human suffering in the Mediterranean region.
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Berlin – Germany will cut funding to charities that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and allocate those resources to addressing structural causes of migration in countries of origin, the government announced Friday.
The German Foreign Ministry announced that the country will stop funding associations that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean.
Migration policy: The affected organizations claim to have rescued more than 175,000 people in the past decade. The German Ministry of…
Germany scraps funding for sea rescues of migrants
Germany is cutting financial support for charities that rescue migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean, saying it will redirect resources to addressing conditions in source countries that spur people to leave.
No more tax money for "rescue operations" in the Mediterranean. Hope to reduce voter turnout for AFD.
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