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The agreement announced Thursday between the ruling CDU, its more conservative brother party the CSU, led by Seehofer, and the Social Democrat (SPD) is a sweetened version of the agreement was reached on Monday
While the asylum process for those arriving at the border will be accelerated, they will not be accommodated in transit centers or camps like Seehofer and Merkel have accepted. On the contrary, there will be "transit processes in police centers", according to Seehofer.
No mention was made of the second part of Monday 's agreement, which provides for the sending of asylum seekers to Austria. the first country of registration for the return of the individual. The Austrian Government has not yet agreed to this proposal
For Andrea Nahles, the leader of the center-left SPD, the need to avoid unilateral refoulement directly at the border was a high priority – and it has been filled.
"We can agree that there will be no unilateral national action, no refusal at the border," Nahles said Thursday night.
The agreement signals a significant devaluation after a tense month when the specter of a collapse of the German government appeared. 19659012] After announcing his controversial "master plan for migration", Seehofer issued an ultimatum to Merkel, pledging to order the border police to start rejecting some asylum seekers directly at the border if She could not In spite of the agreement reached at a European summit on Friday morning, Seehofer signaled her intention to resign before agreeing to last-minute talks with the Chancellor, during which they found Although the number of asylum seekers arriving at the southern border has fallen sharply over the past two years, Bavarian border defense will remain a critical issue as time flies to the elections of October. The Seehofer UHC will likely face a significant challenge from the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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