German court blocks mass Afghan admission revocations; economy faces headwinds

Hundreds of Afghan refugees, including women and children, were left stranded in Pakistan after Germany reneged on admission promises, affecting their safety and humanitarian status.

When a state makes a promise to a human being in peril, the weight of that promise does not dissolve with a change in political wind. Germany's Constitutional Court ruled Friday that the Interior Ministry could not erase, in a single administrative stroke, the admission pledges made to roughly 640 Afghan refugees — many of whom had spent years waiting in Pakistan after the Taliban's return to power in 2021. The court held that the law's prohibition on arbitrary state action demands that each person's circumstances be examined individually, not swept away collectively. In doing so, the judges d

German court blocks mass Afghan admission revocations; economy faces headwinds

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