Refugees

Report: opposition in the SPD parliamentary group against asylum package II

For months, denied the coalition about the tightening of the asylum law. This was then followed by mid-week the agreement, the peace seems to be but of short duration. So that was not agreed upon, so it is now from the SPD.

According to a report in the ARD, the new dispute in the Cabinet arrangements adopted for family reunification inflamed. After information of the ARD Berlin Studio was, it goes to the determination in the asylum package II, the family reunification for refugees with limited, to beneficiaries of subsidiary protection to limit. The intensification, after the reunification of family members for two years will be excluded, according to the draft law, the governing coalition of Union and SPD on Wednesday agreed upon for unaccompanied children and Adolescents are.

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Gabriel makes backing down

The want to parts of the SPD parliamentary group, apparently not support. Even SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel dissociates according to the report, of this regulation. Family reunification for unaccompanied minor refugees, to suspend, was not with him agreed been said Gabriel at the request of the ARD. Gabriel did accordingly declare that it is only through the ARD research of the change in the text of the law have experienced. In an earlier draft were minor pressure from the SPD is still off limits in family reunification has been excluded.

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Accordingly, should the Ministry of the interior the text of the law after a Spitzentreffen of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), the CSU-Chef Horst Seehofer and SPD leader Gabriel on Thursday of the past week have increased. But this would also mean that this is in the inter-Ministerial coordination with the SPD-led ministries is not noticed.

The vote in the Bundestag in February

In the SPD group, there are, according to the ARD report, but even the suspicion that Gabriel in the Spitzenrunde concessions have made it in the own party is neither coordinated with nor communicated to have. Several SPD deputies announced compared to the ARD, the provision for family reunification in the Bundestag does not agree to want.

About the by the Cabinet of Ministers adopted the draft bill to Asylpakt II, the Bundestag, according to the will of the government in the February vote. Finally, could on 26. February the Federal Council to discuss. In addition to the family reunification in the new asylum package, among other things, provisions for the establishment of five Registrierzentren for accelerated asylum procedures and about the financial benefits for asylum seekers. In addition, the procedures for deportations to be speeded up.

qu/se (afp, ARD)