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Germany reaches deal with Greece to return asylum seekers |
2018-08-18 |
[Al Jazeera] Germany has reached a deal with Greece to send back people to the southern European country if they have already applied for asylum there. The announcement by the German interior ministry on Friday follows a similar agreement reached with Spain last week. Both deals come after a dispute between Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. 's conservatives and their Bavarian allies over returning asylum seekers that nearly split them and brought down the government. "The signature of an administrative agreement with Greece is a further step on the way to more orderly conditions in European migration policy," German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement. |
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