(de-news.net) – The German Bundestag has announced that the governing coalition has passed additional legislation designed to further restrict immigration policies. Under the new framework, the previous requirement of Bundesrat approval would be removed, thereby allowing the designation of ‘safe countries of origin’ to be enacted directly through executive regulation without the need for secondary institutional consent.

Government officials emphasized that this procedural change would not extend to asylum petitions, which remain subject to existing rules. Instead, the adjustment would be confined to applications for subsidiary protection and those invoking the Geneva Refugee Convention. In parallel, members of parliament endorsed an amendment to statutory law that abolishes the provision of compulsory legal counsel. As a consequence, individuals held in detention pending deportation would no longer possess the right to receive state-appointed attorneys, marking a significant alteration in the legal safeguards available to such detainees.

The legislative package also incorporates reforms related to naturalization. According to the newly adopted measures, any person found to have attempted to acquire German citizenship through fraudulent practices—such as bribery, coercion, deliberate misrepresentation, or falsified documentation—would face a mandatory exclusion period. For a full decade, such individuals would be barred from submitting a new application for naturalization, thereby reinforcing the government’s intention to uphold the integrity of the citizenship process and deter unlawful attempts to obtain nationality.