Overview
- Alexander Dobrindt says the planned hubs would host rejected asylum seekers who cannot be returned directly and should be located close to origin regions.
- He is pursuing EU authorization and preparing a coalition-of-the-willing approach, with specific sites and legal arrangements still undecided.
- Dobrindt is drafting a legal change to allow asylum applicants to work after three months while their cases are pending.
- He aims to expand removals to Syria and Afghanistan and says he is ready to hold talks in Damascus.
- Saturday’s Munich meeting will convene France’s Bruno Retailleau, Italy’s Matteo Piantedosi, and EU commissioner Magnus Brunner, while EU rights experts and opposition figures warn of legal and human-rights risks.