Overview

• On June 28, Federal Administrative Court President Andreas Korbmacher publicly doubted the government’s ability to sustain immediate returns of asylum seekers at land borders and said the Interior Ministry will face legal consequences.
• A Berlin Administrative Court ruling in early June found that the summary rejection of three Somali migrants at Frankfurt (Oder) was unlawful because no EU member state responsibility had been established.
• Korbmacher emphasized that in urgent cases administrative courts serve as both first and last instance, making their decisions final and requiring intensive constitutional review.
• Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt described the Berlin decision as a single-case judgment, but Korbmacher disputed this, arguing the ruling carries broader legal weight.
• Germany has referred its pushback disputes to the European Court of Justice, where further judgments are expected to test its interpretation of the Dublin III Regulation and Article 72 TFEU.