German conservatives question European Union's asylum system

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2025-02-04

Berlin (dpa) - Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is questioning the effectiveness of the European Union's current asylum system amid the country's ongoing migration policy debate. CDU lawmaker Thorsten Frei criticized the EU-wide agreement known as the Dublin Regulation, which stipulates that in general the country the refugee first enters is responsible for processing their application for asylum. The regulation "did not wo......

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