The Interior Ministry attributed the drop in applications to stricter migration policies, but other factors also played a ...
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German asylum requests halved in 2025

Ever fewer people are applying for asylum in Germany, according to data issued by the Interior Ministry on Sunday, which put ...
Germany received 113,000 first-time asylum applications in 2025, nearly half fewer than last year, as stricter migration policies and ...
The number of migrants "illegally" entering Germany has dropped by over 100,000 in the past two years, according to German police figures. According to the figures, seen by German broadsheet newspaper ...
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks at the cathedral during the opening of "775 Westphalia. Friso Gentsch/dpa German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for debates on migration ...
Germany deported 83 Afghan asylum seekers convicted of crimes in 2025, officials said, amid stricter migration enforcement and ...
BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader, the front-runner in Germany’s election next month, ...
Vice President JD Vance warned European leaders in Munich earlier this month that their efforts to silence dissent over policies that have produced record-high levels of foreign-born, culturally ...
BERLIN — The German parliament narrowly rejected on Friday an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that risked becoming the first draft legislation to pass thanks to a ...
Pensions, migration and conscription will continue to dominate domestic politics in Germany this year. Above all, the focus ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Germany’s Consul General in Erbil, Albrecht von Wittke, has urged Kurdish political parties to ...