CDU chairman Friedrich Merz wants to reduce the number of refugees coming to Germany to less than 100,000 per year. Merz described the Albania model that Italy is pursuing as a “role model” The conservative British government wants to deter migrants with strict laws and deport those who have entered the country illegally to Rwanda.
According to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf), 329,120 people applied for asylum for the first time in Germany in 2023. Most of them came from Syria, Turkey and Afghanistan.