Exchange rumors about Minister: Faeser’s declaration of war

At the meeting of interior ministers, disagreement on the issue of migration became clear. It wasn’t just a question of fact. It was also about Nancy Faeser.

What an exchange of blows at the final press conference on the open stage. And that’s exactly why it’s good that there was a conference of interior ministers in Munich. This debate is important. Anyone who has looked closely may have got the impression that this is about more than a substantive dispute. It’s also about Nancy Faeser.

There is no question: the interior minister’s migration policy projects deal with the elementary issues for Germany’s future. We have to be clear about what it means to be an immigration country, how we can recruit skilled workers to maintain our prosperity and that we show respect to people who have lived and worked here for years but without a German passport. There is so much to say about it.

The problem: All of the projects are put on the agenda almost simultaneously and some of them are still being launched at breakneck speed without any need. Who in this country can still claim to have understood the details of the laws on opportunity residence and the acceleration of the asylum process?

The pace is annoying and dangerous

Experts in the Bundestag commented on this on Monday – with some criticism. Up until the interior committee meeting on Wednesday, the traffic light parties, apparently under pressure from the FDP, quickly made changes that affect young people and young adults and have again triggered criticism from experts. Doesn’t matter. This morning, the majority of the SPD, Greens and FDP passed the law.

The annoying thing is that the public hardly noticed anything about it. And that’s dangerous. Citizens have hardly any opportunity to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages, to form an opinion or to develop an idea of ​​what the Germany of tomorrow will look like.

So it’s good that the Union rumbled at the conference of interior ministers. This may encourage one or the other in this country to find out about Faeser’s laws.

What is Faeser actually doing?

The only question that remains is what is actually driving the SPD politician. Because the IMK has also shown one thing: after a year in office, Faeser is sure-footed, almost combative. Respect, some may have thought at the press conference. It can. When host Joachim Herrmann from the CSU got into a rage to criticize Faeser’s proposed legislation on citizenship or skilled workers in bulk, Faeser waited calmly and then argued sharply against it. Friendly in tone but tough on the matter.

So she parried some attacks from the Union. Contrary to what the CDU and CSU claim, they did something to make deportations easier, namely by extending the options for detention pending deportation, according to Faeser. The fact that this cannot have been the repatriation offensive that was mentioned in the coalition agreement is a given.

Not only Hesse’s Interior Minister Peter Beuth from the CDU, who sat on the stage with Faeser, Herrmann and others at the final press conference, may have known what this appearance actually showed: Nancy Faeser seems ready to take on new tasks. She seems ready to throw herself into the Hessian state election campaign. Whether she really wants it herself is debatable. Some observers say that she feels really comfortable as Federal Minister of the Interior. Why should she give up all that? Anyway: The Union, especially in Hesse, may have understood Faeser’s appearance as a declaration of war and should have been warned.