(Deutsche Welle) Afghans who had been told they could move to Germany will be informed in the next few days “that there is no longer any political interest in their admission.”
With these terse words, the spokeswoman for the German Interior Ministry, Sonja Kock, revealed that 640 people waiting in Pakistan to be relocated in Germany will not be able to come after all.
Amid fears of persecution and reprisals from the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, this group had already been promised asylum by the German government.
But the pledge is being revoked because Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government in Berlin aims to scrap the resettlement programs “as far as possible.” This was agreed by the conservative CDU and CSU parties and the Social Democrats in their coalition agreement earlier this year.
