For Italy, there is not only the diplomatic front open with Spain. News also comes from Germany about the management of migrants that could cause tensions. According to the newspaper La Repubblica, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, struggling with polls showing the far-right party Afd (Alternative für Deutschland) on the rise, would have decided on a hard line, particularly towards Italy.
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The Dublin rules
On August 19, the first asylum seeker will be rejected in our country. She is a 22-year-old Somali woman named Abdirisaq Warsame, who arrived in Germany in March. According to the Dublin rules, it is explained, since the young woman landed in the EU in Italy, she should have applied for asylum in our country.
Since 2022, the Meloni government had refused to take back the so-called “Dublin cases.” In December 2025, a “clean slate” was signed by Rome and Berlin on the past cases, but a spokesperson for the German Interior Ministry explained to Repubblica that for the “Dublin cases” arriving this year, Germany intends to strictly apply European rules and therefore intends to reject them to Italy. “A functioning Dublin system is the premise for the success of the European asylum reform (Geas),” says the spokesperson. “Germany expects transfers to Italy and Greece to be restored from the aforementioned date,” that is, from June 12, the day the new European asylum rules come into effect.
Pushbacks
It is still unclear how many people would now be rejected to Italy. The 22-year-old Somali woman, the first to be rejected in Italy, currently lives in a reception center in Niederwerrn, Bavaria. On June 25, she received a letter from the German Interior Ministry. “On Wednesday, August 19,” the document reads, “you will be transferred to Italy. The police will come to pick you up.” The young woman, fleeing from her father and an arranged marriage, arrived in Germany last March 31 after crossing Italy. Her mother, brother, and other relatives already live in Germany, and it was in Germany that she applied for asylum. However, the German Interior Ministry declared that the Somali woman “is under Italy’s jurisdiction” and that “there are no grounds” for an asylum request in Germany.
The request to Italy without response
Abdirisaq Warsame, the document specifies, “must be rejected to Italy.” A request to the Italian authorities to take back the asylum seeker had already been sent in June; after the customary two weeks within which the Italian authorities should have responded to the Germans, silence was taken as consent. “The request” to take back Warsame “is considered accepted,” the letter concludes.
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