After celebrating the virtues of professional immigration, Germany denounces the costs of illegal immigration. We are currently witnessing across the Rhine a subtle pendulum swing over a political theme that has become explosive, without ever having been debated during the 2021 election campaign.
"The big task we face is to manage and limit irregular migration," Scholz said after a special summit whose conclusions both angered migrant aid NGOs and disappointed German municipalities, prisoners for hosting a demographic distribution key.
Once silent, the government is confronted with the principle of reality. After one million Ukrainian refugees last year – a European record – asylum applications from other third countries jumped by 78% in the first four months of the year compared to the same period in 2022. Berlin is worried that Serbia will be a key step on the...
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