Germany hopes for EU deal on sending failed asylum seekers to third countries, minister says


FILE PHOTO: German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt attends a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany May 28, 2025. REUTERS/Liesa Johannssen/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's interior minister is hoping the European Union can reach a bloc-wide agreement on sending failed asylum seekers who cannot go home to safe countries near their original homelands.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives won February's national election on a promise to bring down immigration levels, which opinion polls showed many voters regarded as being out of control, although numbers have been falling for over a year.

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