{"id":3799,"date":"2016-01-30T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2016-01-30T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T23:00:43","slug":"update-on-germany-new-grand-coalition-migrant-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2016\/01\/update-on-germany-new-grand-coalition-migrant-policies.html","title":{"rendered":"Update on Germany: new Grand Coalition migrant policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This, from Friday\u2019s Der Spiegel: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/fluechtlinge-bundesregierung-einigt-sich-auf-neues-asylpaket-a-1074539.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grand Coalition agrees on a new Asylum Package<\/a>,\u201d as well as\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/fluechtlinge-grosse-koalition-beschliesst-asylpaket-ii-was-bedeutet-das-a-1074543.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Refugee policy: The compromise-compromise \u2013 the facts about Asylum Package II<\/a>\u201c, which provides the details of the new agreement between the leaders of the CDU\/CSU\/SDP Grand Coalition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Refugees with subsidiary protection will not be able to bring families to Germany for the next two years, with the exception of Syrians whose family members are currently in refugee camps in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon, up to limited quotas.<\/li>\n<li>Morocco, Algeria, and Tunesia will be designated as safe countries of origin, so that rejected asylum-seekers will be sent back to these countries.<\/li>\n<li>All asylum-seekers from safe countries will be brought to new processing centers, and their cases processed more quickly. \u00a0These individuals will also not be permitted to leave the local area or they\u2019ll lose benefits and their cases will be closed.<\/li>\n<li>Asylum-seekers will be charged EUR 10 per month for integration courses.<\/li>\n<li>The provisions for illness as a reason to defer deportation will be tightened, so that only serious illnesses can protect against deportation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/gabriel-german-coalition-reaches-deal-on-new-asylum-laws\/a-19010271\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">brief (and incomplete) summary in English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubsidiary protection\u201d, by the way, is a part of German refugee\/asylum law, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bamf.de\/EN\/Migration\/AsylFluechtlinge\/asylfluechtlinge-node.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">explained here<\/a>. \u00a0Simply being from a country in which there is an ongoing war is not enough to qualify one for permanent resettlement in Germany, but only protection until such time as the situation in one\u2019s home country becomes peaceful. \u00a0This is the status that\u2019s being granted to the Syrians and other similarly-situated refugees, not a permanent\u00a0residency.<\/p>\n<p>Also noteworthy:<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-europe-migrants-germany-refugees-idUSKCN0V80IH\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Merkel said it was important to stress that most refugees had only been allowed to stay for a limited period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need \u2026 to say to people that this is a temporary residential status and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained,\u201d she told a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel said 70 percent of the refugees who fled to Germany from former Yugoslavia in the 1990s had returned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here, just for documentation\/reference\u2019s sake, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swp.de\/ulm\/nachrichten\/politik\/Merkel-fordert-Rueckkehr-vieler-Fluechtlinge-nach-Kriegsende;art1157828,3657571\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article<\/a> with the untranslated quote.<\/p>\n<p>Is this too little, too late?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know. \u00a0Time will tell, eh?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, from Friday\u2019s Der Spiegel: \u201cGrand Coalition agrees on a new Asylum Package,\u201d as well as\u00a0\u201cRefugee policy: The compromise-compromise \u2013 the facts about Asylum Package II\u201c, which provides the details of the new agreement between the leaders of the CDU\/CSU\/SDP Grand Coalition: Refugees with subsidiary protection will not be able to bring families to Germany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[248,17],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asylum","tag-germany"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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