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| The German ruling coalition has reached an agreement on migration policy, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and the head of the Social Democratic Party, Andrea Nahles, have confirmed. | The German ruling coalition has reached an agreement on migration policy, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and the head of the Social Democratic Party, Andrea Nahles, have confirmed. |
| The new policy envisages speeding-up the processing of asylum requests but would not involve the creation of any special camps for refugees, Nahles told the German media. Seehofer later explained that the transit procedures would be carried out by police. | The new policy envisages speeding-up the processing of asylum requests but would not involve the creation of any special camps for refugees, Nahles told the German media. Seehofer later explained that the transit procedures would be carried out by police. |
| Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, as well as their Bavarian allies from the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the SPD, have agreed to send those refugees who registered in other EU countries back to these EU states under the bilateral agreements reached with the relevant governments. | |
| If the refugees who already registered in other EU states “cannot be immediately brought to the existing accommodation facilities in the Munich airport transit zone and send back to those countries, the Federal Police should use its existing facilities near the border for the transit procedures,” an explanation note to the agreement says, as cited by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily. | |
| The German government also vowed to draft a new immigration law within a year. | |
| Seehofer explained that the asylum seekers would not be sent to any “transit centers” for a long period of time. “There will be no barbed wire or anything like this,” he told journalists, explaining that even those who registered in other countries would have “total freedom” no later than within 48 hours but they would not be allowed to enter Germany. | |
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