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Previously unseen documents reveal how Germany proposes to relax EU human rights laws to make it easier to boot out rejected asylum seekers at times of mass influx as it attempts to crack down not the escalating migrant crisis engulfing the continent.

A Brussels source said: This is another element in efforts to energise readmission of people to wherever they came from.

The move marks a major backtrack from German Chancellor Angela Merkel who welcomed 1.1 million migrants into her nation following her ill-fated open door refugee policy.

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This is another element in efforts to energise readmission of people to wherever they came from

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The major U-turn comes as Mrs Merkel battles to hold on to her premiership as Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Martin Schulz Social Democrat Party (SPD) make strides before the German elections.

Her grip on power is growing weaker as SPD celebrates a surge in support since nominating European Parliament president Mr Schulz to take on the current leader.

Germany passed a bill on Tuesday which will see convicted criminals, who are classified as dangerous to authorities, forced to wear an ankle tag.

It will be applied for a maximum of three months and then reconsidered.

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Those considered will have committed serious crimes such as murder and manslaughter or a terrorist attack.

Meanwhile German officials have urged Brussels to relax human rights safeguards so more asylum seekers can be deported while awaiting the outcome of their cases.

The EU signed a controversial deal with Turkey last year, allowing the return of migrants only with Ankara.

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But if approved, this proposal would see immigrants transferred to other places, including south of the Mediterranean.

While the EU says it has the right to send away all economic migrants if it chooses, its existing laws on human rights say asylum seekers awaiting a ruling on their cases can only be deported to countries that meet certain conditions.

The working paper lists them as including, safety from threat and persecution, humane reception conditions, and at least partial access to medical care, education and the labour market.

Some parts of this "clearly exceed" the basic safeguards stipulated by the Geneva convention on refugees and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, it says.

But EU officials will consider a safe zone concept, which could mean sending people back to certain areas of countries otherwise deemed too dangerous.

However the plans have not been welcomed by everyone.

Ska Keller, a Green member of the European Parliament, said: These plans are overturning the international law on refugees. This is an utter betrayal, inhumane.

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But the document says the proposal would be instrumental in discouraging people-smugglers.

It read: This is not about building a Fortress Europe. It is about combating illegal immigration, which has already cost the lives of thousands, and about replacing it by a regulated system of legal admissions, combined with humane living conditions, assured by the EU in third countries.

More than 1.1 million migrants entered Germany during the migrant crisis 2015, with most coming from Middle Eastern and North African countries.

And it appears Mrs Merkel's grip on power is growing ever weaker, with rebellion across the country against her controversial immigration policies.

It is not the first time the German leader has hinted at regret over opening her country's doors to a stream of refugees.

Following a devastating defeat in the Berlin state elections last year, she said: If I could, I would turn back the time by many, many years.

However it is feared it is little too late for the Chancellor, whose party even called for a burka ban in the wake of the a string of terror attacks and the sickening sex assaults in Cologne.

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