Overview

• The Berlin Administrative Court ruled June 2 that rejecting asylum seekers without applying the EU’s Dublin procedure is unlawful.
• The decision stemmed from a case in which three Somali nationals were sent back to Poland on May 9 from Frankfurt an der Oder under a new German regulation.
• The court specified that asylum applications must be handled at or near border crossings, although migrants cannot demand entry beyond those points.
• Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative coalition had advised police last month to turn back irregular migrants even if they registered asylum claims.
• The interior ministry has not yet commented on how it will align Germany’s border controls with the court’s directive.