Opinions on EU refugee policy Germany

In 2023, around 92 percent of AfD voters thought that the EU's plan to keep asylum seekers at Europe's borders until they could verify that they are eligible to seek asylum was a good idea. By contrast, only 35 percent of Linke voters felt that way.

Do you think the EU's plan to keep refugees at Europe's external borders and to check their chances of asylum there is good or bad? (by party preference; only respondents who answered "good")

Characteristic	Share of respondents
AfD	92%
CDU/CSU	82%
FDP	73%
SPD	71%
Total	70%
Grüne	44%
Linke	35%

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Release date

June 2023

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Region

Germany, EU

Survey time period

May 13 to 15, 2023

Number of respondents

1,224 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "So that refugees with few chances of being accepted are no longer allowed to enter the EU, the EU is planning to detain refugees at Europe's external borders and to check their chances of asylum there. Do you find this plan...
- good or
- not good?"

The statistics only show the proportion of respondents who answered "good".

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