UPDATE 1-German interior minister plans EU asylum summit on July 18

Germany's interior minister plans to host an EU summit to push for stricter rules for the bloc's asylum system in Bavaria on July 18, a ministry spokesperson said on Friday, as the new government seeks to deliver on a campaign pledge.

Dobrindt has invited interior ministers of France, Poland, Austria, Denmark and the Czech Republic, as well as the EU's internal affairs commissioner Magnus Brunner to the event at the Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak, on July 18. Dobrindt, a conservative ally of chancellor Friedrich Merz, has been pushing to restrict migration into Germany to follow through on a key part of Merz's election campaign platform.

Germany has this year stepped up expulsion of asylum seekers by border police to insist on the European Union's so-called Dublin rules, whereby refugees can only claim asylum in the first EU country they enter, which have been largely ignored. Some of Germany's neighbouring countries have complained that the border checks undermine the Schengen accord of free movement of people between participating countries.

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