The designated Minister of the Chancellery, Thorsten Frei (CDU), has announced that the new federal government consisting of the CDU, CSU and SPD intends to send additional federal police officers to Germany's external borders.

"We will intensify border controls and turn back those who have no right to enter Germany," Frei told "Spiegel." Reinforcing the presence of the Federal Police at the borders is a key point.

"It works in the short term." In the medium term, Europe must make a new attempt to regulate migration for the continent as a whole in such a way "that, on the one hand, we live up to our humanitarian responsibility and, on the other hand, prevent our societies from being overwhelmed." Frei advocated revising the reform of the Common European Asylum System agreed upon within the EU, as other European states also want to do. The new federal government will work to ensure that "together with our European partners, we can also process asylum procedures outside the EU, for example in African countries classified as safe third countries." "Opportunities for easier repatriation, including to third countries outside the EU," must also be created. He announced case-by-case reviews of the admission programs launched by the traffic light coalition government. Currently, approximately 2,600 people from Afghanistan with admission promises are awaiting decisions on their visa applications. "Under our legal system, certain promises can also be revoked if the conditions are met," Frei said. "Therefore, we will have to examine each individual case in order to assess them." The new federal government will do "what is possible and required under the rule of law, but nothing beyond that." The majority of asylum seekers who come to Germany are initially considered to have entered the country illegally, as they cannot apply for asylum prior to their arrival. In Germany, however, they can exercise their fundamental right to asylum and the guarantees of the Geneva Convention on Refugees and legally apply for asylum. If their applications are approved, the refugees are considered to have regular residence.