migration
Kubicki to Greens: Get out of “cloud cuckoo land”
Wolfgang Kubicki is also Vice President of the German Bundestag. photo
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The deputy FDP chairman calls for more realism in migration policy and an end to payments for private sea rescue in the Mediterranean.
Before the Green Party Congress, the deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki called on his coalition partner to be more realistic in migration policy. The Greens’ approval of ending payments for private sea rescue in the Mediterranean is “the first, small step out of the motley cloud cuckoo land towards a sensible migration policy,” said Kubicki to the German Press Agency in Berlin. “I expect further energetic steps at the upcoming Federal Delegates Conference and an unequivocal confirmation of the latest federal-state agreements on migration.”
Kubicki, who is also Vice President of the German Bundestag, said he was “happy and grateful” that the coalition had developed a common understanding that private sea rescue in the Mediterranean would no longer be financed with state funds next year. “It was never possible to convincingly counteract the impression that the criminal smuggling gangs based their business on this,” said Kubicki. “The question also arises as to why private sea rescue in Germany is financed exclusively through voluntary donations, while the taxpayer is supposed to pay for it in the Mediterranean.”
The Greens will meet in Karlsruhe for their federal delegates conference from this Thursday evening. It lasts until Sunday. Asylum and migration is a focus of the first evening.