Germany suspends EU legislation to curb illegal immigration
New Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared last year that "the national law of the Federal Republic of Germany is more important than European law."
According to a report, later denied by the government, in the Die Welt newspaper, Germany had informed neighboring countries of the activation of a special clause in EU legislation that would tighten controls at its borders, denying right of entry to asylum seekers.
A day after the new interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, promised to return to the pre-2015 migration policy, the German newspaper has reported that the government planned to invoke the special clause in the EU's founding treaties, the Article 72 of the TFEU.
"Germany denied this afternoon having plans to activate a special clause in the EU bloc's legislation that allows for tighten border controls and reject irregular immigrants, as previously reported by German newspaper Die Welt", reported Euractiv.de.
"The chancellor will not declare a state of national emergency," said a government spokesman to Euractiv.de.
Germany expels asylum seekers
On Wednesday, Dobrindt announced that he had ordered border police to expel asylum seekers without papers, "except for vulnerable groups such as children or pregnant women."
The aim of this measure is to "reduce clandestine immigration," the interior minister declared, a few hours after taking office.
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