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- THE WEEK, Page 21WORLDSelective Refuge
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- Germany's main parties reach agreement on a new asylum policy
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- The door is not closed yet, but there is finally a move to
- narrow the entry. After months of seeking consensus, Chancellor
- Helmut Kohl's ruling coalition and the opposition Social
- Democrats have come to terms on a revision of Germany's liberal
- asylum laws. The parties insist that the fundamental right of
- asylum for the persecuted has been preserved. But the new
- provisions will allow the government to turn away individual
- asylum seekers who enter Germany from a nation that observes the
- Geneva Convention on refugees. Prospective claimants passing
- through Poland or Czechoslovakia, for example, on their way to
- Germany can be returned to those countries. The move,
- politicians hope, will stem the influx of foreigners and reduce
- xenophobia.
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