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Germany should copy Britain's Rwanda policy in order to deter asylum seekers from Europe, the current leader of Angela Merkel's CDU party has said. 

Friedrich Merz, who has been at the helm of the Christian Democrats Union (CDU) since 2022, said he was 'firmly convinced' that the controversial policy would work adding that Germany ought to 'emulate' it as it would be 'a signal that we're just not going to accept everybody here.'

He told the FT: 'The mere prospect that you won't end up in the promised land of Germany, and that you'll have to apply for asylum in a third country — say Albania, if you're trying to get into Italy, or Rwanda if you're aiming for the UK — will reduce the number of asylum seekers.'

In another sign of deference to the UK, Merz also admitted that Brussels and Berlin were partly to blame for Brexit, as they failed to offer David Cameron, then prime minister of the UK, any meaningful reforms to the EU in the leadup to the 2016 referendum.

'I remember that David Cameron asked for changes to EU social policy and came back to London empty-handed.