The federal government wants to declare Georgia and Moldova safe countries of origin. Opposition leader Merz demands that other countries get this status. SPD and Greens are against it – but the FDP is open to the advance.
The Greens and SPD have rejected the expansion of the list of safe countries of origin demanded by CDU leader Friedrich Merz. “We Greens, as is well known, consider the concept of safe countries of origin to be wrong,” said Filiz Polat, spokeswoman for migration policy for the Greens in the Bundestag, in the “Tagesspiegel”.
SPD and Greens on the other hand…
Green MEP Erik Marquardt accused Merz of “distracting from reality”. It is “populist to pretend that people can be returned when wildly proclaiming safe countries of origin”. For this to happen, there must first be a country “that also takes people back and offers them perspectives”.
The SPD domestic politician Hakan Demir also rejected “a careless expansion of safe countries of origin”. Demir said there are “more and more countries that are not safe”. He spoke out in favor of migration agreements so that people with an employment contract for Germany could “come to us in a simplified manner”.
… FDP open to expansion
The federal government recently decided to include Georgia and Moldova in the list of safe countries of origin. The CDU chairman Merz then called for other countries to be declared safe countries of origin, for example Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria or India.
The deputy FDP parliamentary group leader, Konstantin Kuhle, told the “Tagesspiegel” that the German asylum system “urgently needs relief”. Georgia and Moldova should now be classified as safe countries of origin “without further delay”. “If other states also meet the requirements, the coalition should not refuse to be classified,” demanded Kuhle.