#migration-policy

#migration-policy

The meeting at Zugspitze will address tightening migration policies, focusing on deportations to third countries and shifting asylum processes to those locations.

Keir Starmer will welcome Germany's chancellor, Friedrich Merz, to Downing Street on Thursday to sign a new bilateral treaty that promises tighter action on smuggling gangs, expanded defence exports and closer industrial ties between the UK and Germany.

Thanos Plevris described the influx of refugees as an 'invasion,' with the ruling New Democracy party referring to it as a 'hybrid war' and an 'emergency.'

"If someone says 'asylum' here at the German border, they're entitled to a hearing. For all I care, it can be right at the border, but it must happen," said Merkel.

Looking visibly tired at his rally on Tuesday, Rafal Trzaskowski of the ruling centre-right Civic Platform, stood on a platform at Krakow's central Market Square amid a large crowd cheering his name, blue European flags fluttering beside the white-and-red Polish ones.