Saxony's Interior Minister is calling for the basic right to asylum to be deleted from the Basic Law

Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) has called for the basic right to asylum to be deleted from the Basic Law. According to information from the “Leipziger Volkszeitung” and the “Sächsische Zeitung”, this emerges from a four-point plan to tighten asylum law. “The reception capacity in cities and communities must be the benchmark for the extent to which Germany will grant asylum in the future,” Schuster told the newspapers.

Instead of the individual right to asylum, the Saxon Interior Minister demanded that there should be annual quotas. According to the newspapers, Schuster wants to open a new asylum debate with his paper and will also discuss this with the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the state ministers in the coming weeks. “We have to avoid excessive demands with migration like in the last ten years with a flexible upper limit,” said the CDU politician.

Schuster sees his earlier demands confirmed in the current decline in asylum applications. “The fact that strict border controls with rejections can achieve a significant reduction in asylum access and thus a real change in migration has now been finally proven with the clear course of the Federal Government,” said the State Interior Minister.

Relaxation of the European Convention on Human Rights

Recently, the number of initial applications in Saxony fell significantly: compared to 2024, the number of applications fell by two thirds. The continuation of border controls is therefore “essential if we do not want to carelessly jeopardize the successes of the new migration course,” said Schuster.