While most legal experts argue that the rejection of people who want to claim that asylum violates the EU law, Dobrindt argued that there was a clear legal basis for the decision, and said that he and Merz were “in talks” with the neighbors of Berlin on the new approach.
Officials from Poland and Austria criticized the plan of the new German government in the comments to Politico last week. The chief diplomat of Poland in Berlin, Jan Tombiński, said that current controls were “already a problem for daily border traffic and the functioning of the EU internal market”, while the Austrian Ministry of the Interior quoted a decision of the European Court of Justice, which judged the informal yields illegal.
MERZ – whose campaign promises also included commitments to improve relations with the neighbors of Germany and to take a more proactive position on the European scene – was in Warsaw when Dobrindt announced the new plan, where he will have to defend the new border policy of his government.
Asked about Polish and Austrian criticisms, Dobrindt said that the more strict national rules would support a tightening of the European asylum system as a whole, which Germany would continue with its neighbors.
“The more we can move asylum applications to the external borders of the European system, the less the internal border controls will be necessary,” he said.
“We want a Europe of open borders to be possible again. But the current situation is that of open dysfunctionality. It must be cleaned, then we can very quickly return to a reduction in border controls. ”
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