Germany is reactivating the voluntary
solidarity mechanism established at the EU level in 2022 under
which it receives asylum seekers from Italy in view of the
massive number arrivals in Lampedusa, DPA reported German
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announcing on television late on
Friday.
This week Berlin suspended the mechanism and said it would only
resume when Germany can once again transfer asylum seekers
arriving on its territory back to Italy on the basis of the
Dublin Regulation mandating that asylum applications be
processed in the country of first entry.
On Friday Faeser said the mechanism had been suspended because
"Italy has shown no willingness to take people back through the
Dublin procedure", but she immediately added that: "now, of
course, it is clear that we also fulfill our obligation of
solidarity".
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