Germany is considering adopting a plan to deport migrants to Rwanda, similar to the scheme recently scrapped by the UK government. Joachim Stamp, Germany’s migration commissioner, proposed the idea as the ruling coalition faces growing pressure to curb unauthorized migration.
he incident has intensified political pressure on the German government to address migration, particularly after a far-right party won a regional election for the first time since World War II.
The option to send migrants to a third country is currently limited to Rwanda, according to Joachim Stamp, a politician involved in migration discussions. He explained that Rwanda is the only country willing to cooperate, suggesting that those crossing the EU’s eastern borders, roughly 10,000 individuals per year, would be the focus of such a policy.
This proposal comes after the UK’s controversial Rwanda plan faced multiple legal challenges, leading to its abandonment when Labour, under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, took power. The UK had spent £700 million on the plan, but no flights ever took off. Rwanda, however, has expressed willingness to continue discussing such arrangements with other nations.
In Germany, if the plan were pursued, asylum procedures in Rwanda would be conducted under the supervision of the United Nations. Mr. Stamp also proposed removing the “social connection” requirement from the Common European Asylum System, a regulation that currently ties asylum seekers to countries where they have some personal connection.
New EU rules to manage irregular migration are expected to be implemented by 2025, though discussions about interim measures continue.
