Germany denies wanting to suspend EU legislation to curb illegal migration
A day after the Interior Minister promised to return to the pre-2015 migration policy, the German government has denied wanting to invoke a "national state of emergency".
Friedrich Merz, winner of the Bundestag elections.
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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