Germany is set to strip rejected asylum seekers of their automatic right to a lawyer in a bid to speed up deportations.

It comes after the newly elected chancellor scrapped Angela Merkel 's open border policy by issuing orders to turn undocumented migrants away from the nation.

Merz to abolish automatic assignment of lawyers, with red tape blamed for deportation backlog

Germany is set to strip rejected asylum seekers of their automatic right to a lawyer in a bid to speed up deportations.