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Published on: 23/01/2025 | 12:16:12
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Two people, including a 2-year-old boy, were killed and three injured Wednesday in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. Chancellor Olaf Scholz met the heads of the country’s security services on Wednesday evening. His main election challenger, Friedrich Merz, stepped up his party’s vows to toughen migration policy. Merz said that if he becomes chancellor, he would order the Interior Ministry to control all of Germany’s borders permanently. He argued that EU rules are “recognizably dysfunctional” and Germany must exert a right to the primacy of national law. Merz insisted that “compromises are no longer possible on these issues” 229,751 people applied for asylum in Germany last year, a 30% decrease from previous year. There were 18,384 deportations in the year’s first 11 months, compared with 16,430 in all of 2023.
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