On Sunday 6 and Monday 7 November, German politicians unveiled options for reform of the country’s immigration and asylum management system, according to reports in several media. In an article in Welt am Sonntag, Christian Democrat interior minister Thomas de Maizière recommended intercepting migrants at sea and sending them back to North Africa so that they can lodge a request for asylum in the EU from there, a spokesperson for de Maizière stated.
The SPD party is expected to...