Other fifteen states even shown any interest going to cause it is also worth remembering as well that the numbers of Asylum Seekers arriving in germany and the e. U. Is actually reduced in just in germany by the end of last year there were around one hundred seventy thousand. Registered Asylum Seekers in germany which if you compare that to at the height of whats become known as the of the refugee crisis there is numbers of tiny now its not the only change to Immigration Rules that were seeing here in germany lets take a look at another because starting today some refugees can apply to bring their immediate relatives to the country in Two Thousand And Sixteen the German Government suspended a Family Reunification to slow down the number of migrants arriving here now it has lifted that cap and we met a syrian refugee who hopes that the new ruling or reunite him with his wife and his daughter. Needs a lot more last look his wife and daughter in the eyes in august twenty fifteen
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a state under the rule of. law and let me underline that one small step toward this kind of the kish to. chancellor merkel there the rule of law in germany i mean as some say the democratic principles of the chancellor is underlining there are being called into question are the candidates incidents symptomatic of a wider phenomenon here in germany. well i m glad machall and her posse of of course come under tremendous pressure from the anti immigrant party here in germany they are after all the largest opposition party in the national parliament and so. now the city does have to react on conservatives have to react because parties like the a.f.p. they re selling this narrative that they are allegedly protecting the native population from the dangerous migrants and they re criticising on open door refugee policy but of course it s a phenomenon that we don t only see here in germany in germany is winning in the
living in germany and priority is also going to be given to humanitarian crises for example young children or those who are seriously ill ok so kate looking at the bigger picture we have two changes taking effect today in germany s immigration system why is the country changing that system we ve seen in the last few months germany s stands on migration policy getting tighter and tighter and tighter and that s largely a result of september s election last year when not only the conservatives but largely the conservatives they suffered huge losses to the fall right a.f.d. possy has an anti immigrant party and so now the the conservatives and particularly the sister party down in bavaria to. chancellor angela merkel s conservatives desperately trying to win back those votes that they lost now but of course there is even with these measures that we re seeing implemented today there is criticism now that as the numbers of refugees are going down whether really this is just a symbolic gestur
has adopted a hardline approach to migration this is because he wants to win the regional elections with his party which are coming up in october and varia and of course the far right f.t. the anti immigrant party is very strong competition for the conservatives in the very and so austere of as essentially said tangle americal that she needs to find a solution or else he will close the borders effectively to asylum seekers who ve already been registered in of the e.u. countries starting from july anglo-american has already said that she doesn t think that she can deliver an e.u. white solution by the end of this month but what she does want to do is find bilateral solutions i.e. deals with other e.u. countries in the viewers watching this story they may be scratching their head but i mean the stakes are really that hard chancellor merkel and her government could collapse next month because europe cannot agree on how to handle the influx of
a hardline approach to migration this is because he wants to win the regional elections with his party which are coming up in october and various and of course the far right f.t. the anti immigrant party is very strong competition for the conservatives in the very and so austere of has essentially said to uncle americal that she needs to find a solution or else he will close the borders effectively to asylum seekers who ve already been registered in of the e.u. countries starting from july anglo-american has already said that she doesn t think that she can deliver an e.u. white solution by the end of this month but what she does want to do is find bilateral solutions i.e. deals with other countries in the viewers watching this story they may be scratching their head but i mean the stakes are really that high chancellor merkel and her government could collapse next month because europe cannot agree on how to handle the influx of migrants right. well