Schuster: Consistent turnaround in migration policy

Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) believes that the coalition agreement between the CDU/CSU and SPD at federal level enshrines the goal of a consistent turnaround in migration policy. "Berlin is finally sending an unmistakable signal to the country, but also to the world, that we will control and limit migration," he said in a statement.

"Priority instruments" such as refusing asylum seekers at the borders, stopping admission programs and family reunification, deportations to Afghanistan and Syria as well as restrictions on the rights of those obliged to leave the country could be used to bring about a noticeable change of course.

At the same time, Schuster described the introduction of a temporary residence permit for well-integrated tolerated persons as an important step. "It was particularly important to me that we give people who have lived, worked and integrated in Germany for years a perspective," he said. A good six weeks after the federal elections, the CDU, CSU and SPD agreed on a coalition agreement for the formation of a new federal government in Berlin on Wednesday.