Written question – Deportations of refugees from Germany to countries of first entry such as Greece – E-001763/2025

Question for written answer  E-001763/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Kostas Papadakis (NI), Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos (NI)

The unacceptable and dangerous decision by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany to deport two refugees to Greece, claiming that the refugees had first been granted asylum there and could secure ‘bread, bed and soap’, paves the way for mass deportations of thousands of uprooted people to countries of first entry and to Greece, on the basis of reactionary EU and government guidelines. It thus promotes the perpetuation of their being trapped in them. The decision follows the reactionary package of measures in the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum. This Pact, inter alia, maintains the provision for entrapping people in their country of first entry on the basis of the Dublin regulations for recognised refugees and asylum seekers.

In view of this:

• 1.What is the Commission’s position on the fact that the deportation by the German authorities of two recognised refugees to Greece, which constitutes an application of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, preserving the responsibility of the first country of entry under the Dublin regulations, paves the way for dangerous mass deportations to Greece and other countries of first entry?
• 2.What is the Commission’s position on the fact that, on the basis of the above, conditions are being created for the perpetuation of the entrapment of refugees, contrary to their rights stemming from the Geneva Refugee Convention and their right to be able to travel to their countries of destination?

Submitted: 30.4.2025