Displaced Persons Seek Shelter - Wüst urges the Chancellor to spearhead migration control efforts.
Hendrik Wüst, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, has urged Olaf Scholz, the Federal Chancellor, to provide clear suggestions for managed migration to Germany during the upcoming federal-state discussions. "This is the final opportunity for the Federal Chancellor to demonstrate that he genuinely initiates measures for efficient control and order regarding migration," Wüst remarked to reporters in Düsseldorf.
Wüst emphasized that migration must be both controlled and irregular migration disrupted. The CDU leader advocated for speeding up plans for asylum assessments in nations outside the EU. "It's not feasible to start with asylum proceedings for those who have crossed the Mediterranean," he stated, clarifying that he was not referring to Rwanda, where Germany and Britain have an asylum agreement. Countries on the European continent not part of the EU are also being considered.
"We truly require a stance from the federal government on this issue"
Wüst anticipated that the expert group's reports from the federal government would be unveiled at the June 20 minister presidents' conference and that progress would be made. "We genuinely need a definitive response from the federal government regarding this matter," Wüst explained.
Following the deadly knife assault on a police officer in Mannheim by a 25-year-old Afghan, Wüst demanded his deportation to Afghanistan and dialogue with the Taliban. "The federal government will have to swallow a bitter pill and establish contact with the Taliban to ensure the deportation of people like this," Wüst asserted. "It's a burden, of course." Despite this, the federal government must ponder this situation, he added.
Since the Taliban reclaimed power in Kabul in August 2021, Afghan deportations have been terminated in Germany. In response to the fatal attack, Scholz declared his intention to reintroduce the deportation of criminal individuals to Afghanistan and Syria. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is currently examining this. So far, Germany has banned the deportation of Afghans due to the Taliban's reestablished control in the country.
In March, the states had pleaded with the federal government, amid other demands, to propose relocating asylum procedures to countries located outside the EU. In a resolution, the 16 heads of states requested that the Ampel administration in Berlin share early outcomes at the ensuing federal-state meeting on June 20.
