Overview

• At a Saturday work meeting in Munich, Germany's interior minister urged counterparts to back a sharper course on migration policy with no final declaration planned.
• His package proposes significantly faster asylum procedures, ending the suspensive effect for appeals on inadmissible claims, and allowing indefinite deportation detention for certain offenders and security risks.
• He is promoting 'return hubs' located near migrants' regions of origin and says willing states should proceed together without waiting for full EU action.
• Digital translation aids powered by artificial intelligence would be deployed to accelerate interviews and ease interpreter bottlenecks, according to the ministry's outline.
• Ministers from Poland, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as EU migration commissioner Magnus Brunner, were expected, while refugee groups announced protests and experts flagged legal and practical hurdles, with drone overflights also on the agenda.