OpinionThe SPD should listen to Mette Frederiksen on asylum:
The Danish Prime Minister is calling for return centers for asylum seekers in third countries ...
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Mette Frederiksen calls for third-country return centersEU law has provided for such facilities only recently; Germany’s SPD remains largely skeptical or opposed.
- On Monday, Giorgia Meloni and Mette Frederiksen jointly urged on Instagram that the negative effects of illegal immigration not be glossed over and that European laws and values be respected.
- According to the article, European People’s Party chairman Manfred Weber also supports return centers in third countries, while EU law has provided for them only recently.
- The article identifies the low number of completed deportations as one reason why acceptance of European asylum law is being eroded.
- The article cites as a possible reason for the SPD’s standing at 12 percent that ordinary people are more affected by overstretched public facilities and services.
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