Understanding Europe

AfD members and co-leaders celebrate the party congress in January 2025, where they presented their election manifesto, including tough measures on migration | Photo: Sebastian Kahnert / picture alliance / dpa
Opposition leader Friedrich Merz is calling for tight restrictions on migration | Photo: Steffen Proessdorf/foto2press/Imago Images
The first guests of Baobab Experience's Welcome Center | Photo: BAOBAB EXPERIENCE
Many German laws for asylum seekers changed in the course of 2024 | Photo : picture-alliance/dpa/J. Büttner
Estonia's deportation detention center in Tallinn | Photo: Benjamin Bathke/InfoMigrants