Stern poll
Majority of Germans are against a change in EU asylum law
The CDU politician Thorsten Frei recently suggested that the individual right to asylum should be abolished in the EU and instead quotas should be set for the admission of those in need of protection. Two-thirds of Germans reject this plan.
Almost two-thirds of Germans are in favor of maintaining individual asylum rights in the EU. That prompted a Forsa question for the magazine star. In the discussion about the control of immigration to the EU, the parliamentary manager of the Union faction in the Bundestag, Thorsten Frei (CDU), proposed the individual right to Abolish asylum and instead set upper limits or quotas for the admission of those in need of protection. Only 32 percent of Germans support this proposal, the vast majority of 64 percent would like individual asylum applications for the politically persecuted to remain.
Only the AfD supporters are in favor of abolishing the individual right to asylum
There is strong opposition to Frei’s plan from voters in the governing parties. Among the supporters of the Greens, 88 percent are in favor of maintaining the existing regulations, 84 percent of FDP voters and 76 percent of SPD voters. There is also no majority for Frei’s proposal among Union voters. 56 percent of CDU/CSU supporters reject it. Only among the AFD voters – not surprisingly – does a majority of 56 percent support the abolition of the individual right to asylum in the EU.
In an article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the parliamentary secretary of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Thorsten Frei (CDU), pleaded for the abolition of the individual right to asylum in the European Union. Instead, there should be an EU-wide contingent of 300,000 to 400,000 people in need of protection who would be taken in directly from abroad and distributed among the member states. Apparently, the majority of Germans do not support this.
The data was collected by the market and opinion research institute forsa for the RTL Group Germany on June 20 and 21, 2023. Database: 1001 respondents. Statistical error tolerance: +/- 3 percentage points