Overview

• The Berlin Administrative Court ruled on June 2 that rejecting asylum seekers without a Dublin procedure is unlawful in the case of three Somali applicants returned from the German-Polish border.
• Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced they will continue border rejections and pursue a main proceedings review to assert legal grounds for the policy.
• Government officials cite strains on public order, internal security and integration resources and plan to invoke Article 72 of the EU treaty to argue exceptions to the Dublin rules.
• Opposition figures from the Greens, Left and dissenting SPD MPs condemned the decision as a violation of EU and German law and demanded an immediate halt to the practice.
• Migration experts such as Gerald Knaus warn the government will likely lose subsequent legal challenges up to the European Court of Justice.