Dear @kimbenny20
Among EU countries, fingerprints of asylum seekers are shared in order to decide which country is responsible for processing a person’s asylum application. These fingerprints are stored in a database called EURODAC for 10 years. This means that the German authorities will have access to the records from Sweden.
It is not clear to me what influence a previous asylum case in another EU country will have if you apply for asylum 8 years later in Germany. I was not able to find any clear information on this.
If you **** at the text of the Dublin Regulation itself, under Article 19, section 2, it refers to cases where the original country no longer has responsibility if the person has left that territory for at least three months (here on page 42):
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:180:0031:0059:en:PDF
The Dublin Regulation is for deciding a country’s responsibility within an ongoing asylum application. I was not able to find information in it or elsewhere about situations where it is a subsequent asylum case in another EU country.
Best,
Éanna