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Currently the anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling first, after earlier this month it became the first far-right party since World War Two to win a state election, in Thuringia.
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's main opposition leader demanded a sweeping overhaul of migration policy and permanent border controls on Thursday, a day after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested for ...
Germany has begun new controls at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing restrictions on a wide area of free movement known as the Schengen Zone and stirring anger ...
Immigration to Germany, both in the country's modern borders and the many political entities that preceded it, has occurred throughout the country's history. Today, Germany is one of the most popular destinations for immigrants in the world, with well over 1 million people moving there each year since 2013. [ 1 ]
But parties are also competing to sound tougher on immigration, promising to speed deportations of illegal immigrants, in a bid to contain the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has ...
Germany received more than 1.2 million migrants over the past year. Though some progress has been made, there are still existing feelings of xenophobia in Germany due to the current refugee crisis. Current xenophobic feelings and opinions have decreased from 23.4 to 16.5 percent when compared to a similar study conducted in 2018.
Before the formation of a coalition government in March 2018, immigration policy had become an issue that prevented Angela Merkel obtaining a workable majority, with the Free Democratic Party declining to join a coalition and all potential coalition partners calling for stricter migration controls. [13]
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who seeks to reduce the number of asylum seekers and stem support for the far-right, hopes to move closer towards a national consensus on a tougher migration policy at a ...