Germany is set to strip rejected asylum seekers of their automatic right to a lawyer in a bid to speed up deportations.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz will scrap a rule that offers legal support to asylum seekers awaiting to be deported, The Telegraph reports.
Merz's allies claimed that the law - which had been passed by a previous government - was being used to cause delays in deportation cases.
Senior MP from Merz's Christian Democrats party told The Telegraph: 'We want the rate of deportations to increase, but many deportations fail due to people going into hiding or due to various legal and practical obstacles.'
MPs have raised concerns that these delays increase the risk of asylum seekers going into hiding.
