refugees
Dobrindt sets conditions for discussions about migration
Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), chairman of the CSU regional group in the Union parliamentary group. photo
© Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa
After a long dispute, the federal and state governments reached an agreement at the beginning of the week on the cost of accommodating asylum seekers. However, the Union sets conditions for a common migration pact.
“We remain prepared to deal with the current migration crisis together with the Chancellor,” he said. However, the decisions must lead to a real change in asylum. On Tuesday, Union faction leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) accused Scholz of a lack of willingness to cooperate with the opposition. “I don’t see any willingness on the part of the Chancellor at the moment to substantially continue the talks with us,” he said.
Pure test orders “cannot be done with us”
The federal government had declared that it wanted to examine asylum procedures outside Europe. Dobrindt said: “Pure testing orders like the one regarding third-country solutions in the decision with the Prime Minister cannot be carried out with us.” Illegal migration can only be stopped sustainably if the smuggling systems are broken. “If the asylum procedures and the granting of protection take place outside of Europe, migrants will simply no longer reach our social systems,” said Dobrindt. “This destroys the logic of the smuggling business because it no longer makes sense to pay thousands of euros for criminal smuggling.”
If the migration issue is not resolved, we will see in next year’s European elections that the AfD will become the strongest party, said Dobrindt. “Destabilization and emotionalization in society will continue to increase. This reveals the most problematic forecasts for the state elections in the East, and the question arises as to when a tipping point has been reached for German politics that can no longer be reversed,” said the CSU Politician. There will be state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg in 2024.
On Tuesday night, after months of dispute, Chancellor Scholz and the heads of government of the 16 countries reached an agreement on how to share refugee costs and agreed on measures to reduce irregular migration to Germany.