The adage that ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ has no less application in the political realm. With Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer having declared his predecessor’s controversial Rwanda deportation plan dead in the water, several German politicians have seized with relish on the idea of using the existing facilities in the East African country for their own migration woes.
Germany's ruling coalition is facing rising far-right pressure to curb irregular migration. In September Joachim Stamp, the country's migration commissioner, proposed that asylum-seekers arriving at the EU's eastern border with Belarus should be deported to Rwanda for processing.
