US EditionGermany's Chancellor to declare state of emergency over migration
- Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to declare a national state of emergency on migration to strengthen deportations and border control.
- Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, together with the Interior Minister, plans to invoke Article 72 of the EU Treaty in response to the rise in illegal border crossings through secure EU member states.
- The government is preparing to apply national law immediately for border protection and internal security, while briefing neighboring countries' ambassadors.
- Dobrindt stated border controls will be stricter with 'a higher number of rejections,' but vulnerable groups like children and pregnant women will not be turned back.
- The emergency declaration aims to legally shield the government amid criticism and questions about the plans' legality from neighboring states and experts.
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Merz calls for national emergency: +++ Greens react irritated – "And what does the SPD say?
In the face of migration, Friedrich Merz has declared a "national emergency" – and received applause from the CSU for it. The Greens regard the rejections at the borders as illegal and EU shameful. The new Foreign Minister emphasizes the agreements with the neighbours. All developments in the live ticker.
Merz calls "national emergency" for migrants
Only two days after his oath, Germany's Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared the "national emergency situation" in migration. The ambassadors of the neighbouring states are currently in the Ministry of the Interior, it says. "The new Federal Government wants to activate Article 72 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (...). This means: considerably more border controls and rejections of asylum seekers at all borders", wro…
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