Olaf Scholz spoke at the Protestant Kirchentag in Nuremberg on Saturday. He defended the tightening of the right to asylum and solidarity between EU states.

He promised faster asylum procedures and more digitization in the processes. The day before, people demonstrated against the EU plans and spoke of a "Fortress Europe" for refugees in Europe. The German Chancellor had to get louder in order to be heard by the rest of the visitors in the Frankenhalle. He said: "I intend to do this again soon"