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Lindholz: Scholz must make the issue of migration a top priority
According to CSU interior expert Andrea Lindholz, Chancellor Olaf Scholz should make the issue of migration a top priority. photo
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Rising numbers of asylum seekers and warnings about the consequences: the issue of migration is at the top of the political agenda. The opposition Union calls for the Chancellor and makes him an offer.
The deputy chairwoman of the Union faction, Andrea Lindholz (CSU), is Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) asked to make the issue of migration a top priority.
“The Federal Minister of the Interior is clearly overwhelmed by this, the Foreign Minister is practically inactive,” said the CSU interior expert of the “Rheinische Post”, referring to the ministers Nancy Faeser (Interior/SPD) and Annalena Baerbock (Exterior/Greens). The Union is extending its hand to the Federal Chancellor for the urgently needed asylum transition. Scholz must now make the issue a top priority.
Union offers Scholz pact on migration
Today in the Bundestag there is a proposal from the Union about a “Germany pact in migration policy”. According to the information, it also states that anyone who has already applied for asylum in other member states or whose application for asylum has been rejected should “be able to be rejected at the internal borders if they continue their journey within the EU on their own initiative.”
The proposed package of measures also includes controls at the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland and “effective return agreements” with countries of origin. CDU leader Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday: “The outstretched hand from me and from us is there.”
Union parliamentary group vice-president Jens Spahn (CDU) said on Thursday evening in the ZDF program “Maybrit Illner” that a joint decision in the democratic center on the issue of migration was necessary in order to undermine populists from the left and right and radicals on the issue of migration. “We need a common understanding,” said Spahn. “And I’m not sure whether that exists within the federal government,” he said. “We are at the limit of what is possible. And these numbers have to go down significantly, very significantly in a very short time,” said Spahn, referring to the migration numbers.
SPD Interior Minister wants more migration agreements
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) warned “Maybrit Illner” against believing that there are simple solutions. Irregular migration must be limited, she admitted. “We want to control this more strongly through migration agreements,” she said. These should enable people to come to Germany legally – and the contractually bound countries should then undertake to take people back, i.e. rejected asylum seekers.
Warning about the consequences of more irregular entry
Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) expects serious problems in Germany if the irregular entry of migrants continues to increase as before. “In the first eight months of this year alone, we had over 70,000 illegal entries into Germany. As of the end of last year, 300,000 people in Germany were also required to leave the country,” Haseloff told the “Mitteldeutsche Zeitung”.
This means that people who are really entitled to asylum and need help can no longer be helped effectively. In addition, municipalities and states would find themselves in a situation “that they can no longer cope with”. Accommodation, social care and school lessons can then hardly be guaranteed.
Meanwhile, the German Association of Cities quickly called for more federal aid to deal with migration. Managing Director Helmut Dedy told the “Rheinische Post”: “When it comes to financing, we finally need a permanent system that dynamically adapts to the number of refugees and gives us planning security.” Dedy added that the next Prime Minister’s Conference with the Chancellor in November must finally deliver this. It is becoming “increasingly difficult in many places to adequately accommodate and care for refugees.”