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Germany and Austria freeze Syrian asylum applications, local media report
euronews (in English)
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09/12/2024
The decision comes as millions of refugees are now able to return to Syria following the fall of al-Assad's regime.
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Germany and Austria have put a hold on processing Syrian asylum applications as Syria's political
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future is currently too uncertain, local media have reported.
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The decision comes as millions of refugees are now able to return to Syria following
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the fall of al-Assad's regime.
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You have to assume that the rebels who have won now have close relations to Afghanistan,
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to the Taliban, these are not good signs.
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That means today, at the moment, it is absolutely too early to predict whether it means that
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more people will return to Syria or whether more people will come to us.
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To be honest, I am shocked that just a few hours after the fall of this bad regime
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in Damascus, Germany is speculating about it, or is being directly asked, we still have
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to talk about deportation.
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I think this is more than cynical and, to be honest, also populist and it is very much
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about the lives of many German Syrians and people who come from this region.
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Local authorities said over 47,000 applications were affected by the application freeze in
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Germany, but that there was no impact on existing applications which were already decided on.
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In Austria, 7,300 applications were affected.
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That was confirmed by the Interior Ministry to local media.
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