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The department for Home Affaires 1 deals with:
- Asylum and refugee policy
- Immigration policy
- Integration Policy
- Issues of external border protection, European Integrated Border Management and free movement of persons in an area without internal border controls
- Visa policy
Head of department: Mr. Wolfgang Hammer
The department for Home Affaires 2 deals with:
- Police cooperation between EU Member States
- Counterterrorism
- Civil protection and crisis management
- Data protection
- Cooperation between the parties to the Schengen Agreement in the European Union
- Cybersecurity
Head of department: Ralf Lesser