Faeser is looking for a migration breakthrough – with a “coalition of those willing to accept”

Created: 01/14/2022, 16:16

Nancy Faeser (SPD), Federal Minister of the Interior, is standing at the entrance to the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

Faeser wants to ensure that extremists have to leave the public service more quickly in the future.

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Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is aiming for a new course on the issue of migration.

EU politicians welcome their project.

Berlin/Brussels – In order to end the blockade in EU asylum policy that has been going on for years, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser wants to forge a “coalition of receptive member states”.

Such a coalition could go ahead and thus get the further development of the European asylum system going, said the SPD politician on Friday after a meeting with EU Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson in Berlin.

Her first talks with France and Italy on migration issues had been promising.

The minister did not dare to estimate how large this “coalition of the willing” would ultimately be.

The migration expert Gerald Knaus recently suggested an international alliance in a guest article for

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The migration crisis on the border with Belarus has shown that the EU states can be successful if they act together, said EU Commissioner Johansson.

Of the migrants who the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko* "lured into the trap", around 5,000 people have now returned to their countries of origin.

Recently, hardly any migrants have come to the European Union irregularly, she emphasized.

Faeser is looking for a migration breakthrough – with a “coalition of those willing to accept”

Taking in asylum seekers is not the only way to show solidarity, Johansson said.

Member States could also ensure that people without the right to asylum are returned to their countries of origin.

It is good that Germany is "again taking on a more constructive role when it comes to the deadlocked negotiations on the reform of the European asylum system," said the Greens' chairman in the interior committee, Marcel Emmerich.

Humanitarian solutions were "blocked or blindly ignored" by Faeser's predecessor Horst Seehofer (CSU) for years.

With a group of EU member states, Germany can now bring more movement into the negotiations and ensure better standards.