European countries has finally awaken and are taking steps to correct the many mistake on immigration policies that they adopted for several years now. It will start with single, healthy male asylum seekers who have travelled to Germany via Greece. A top german court has just ruled that they cal all be deported back to the Mediterranean state.
In a boost for Friedrich Merz, the incoming German chancellor who wants to reduce migration levels, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled that asylum seekers who meet the criteria can cope with a lack of state support in Greece, because they will not face inhumane treatment in the country.
Robert Keller, one of the judges, said that the ruling was ultimately based on whether refugees in Greece had access to "bread, bed and soap".
He said: "That’s not much, we know that."
Merz’s incoming coalition, comprising his Christian Democrats (CDU) and the centre-Left Social Democrats, has vowed to turn away asylum seekers en masse from Germany’s borders, claiming public services are "overwhelmed".
The ruling means that asylum seekers who entered the European Union via Greece and were granted asylum, but then continued to Germany and lodged a new claim, risk being sent back by German authorities.
Under the Dublin Agreement, asylum seekers are supposed to have their claims processed in the first EU country they enter, but those rules are rarely enforced.
The ruling was a response to an appeal by two refugees, a citizen of Somalia and a Gaza-born man, who were seeking to overturn their deportation orders to Greece.
The two men fled their home countries in 2017 and 2018, crossed through Turkey and were granted refugee status in Greece, the German news agency DPA reported.
They continued on to Germany and lodged new asylum applications that were rejected by German authorities, who then issued deportation orders to Greece.
The men filed appeals against the deportation orders because they feared that they would face severe hardship in Greece, such as a lack of access to basic services and hostility towards asylum seekers.
German courts have generally struggled to deport refugees back to Greece due to resistance from human rights groups and legal appeals, which argue that the living conditions for refugees in Greece are extremely poor.
But the ruling by the Federal Administrative Court found that single, healthy, able-bodied male migrants should be able to cope with the poorer living standards awaiting them in Greece.