The German opposition party is calling for a temporary closure of the country’s borders to asylum claimants
The Christian Democratic Union party's Thorsten Frei , photographed here with CDU chairman Friedrich Merz, wants asylum policy stripped back in line with the original postwar laws.
All of this is compounded by the provisions of Articles 18 and 19 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which binds all member states when dealing with matters of union law. It has, in Ireland’s case, the equivalent of constitutional status as a matter of Irish domestic law in that role. Those articles enshrine rights and duties in respect of asylum seeking and international protection.
Politicians sense that failure to re-establish effective member state competence in asylum seeking, international protection and migration law is not merely politically unsustainable but potentially a profound danger for the entire EU project, in terms of cohesion and popular support.
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