> The CDU/CSU parliamentary group has received a majority in the Bundestag for its demands for a drastic tightening of asylum policy. Parliament passed a five-point motion calling for, among other things, permanent border controls, refoulement of asylum seekers and the detention of foreigners who are required to leave the country. The FDP and AfD had signaled their support for the motion.
AvgCapitalismW on
The CDU finally realised that the “Brandmauer” is a ploy by SPD and Greens that overproportionally strengthens their own positions and diminishes the voteshare and power the CDU has.
V______________ on
Very good.
OkKnowledge2064 on
Permanent border controls are such a terrible idea. I really hope it wont be implemented
Schnix54 on
Europe we fucked up badly pls send help
MFHava on
So Merz set his „Brandmauer“ on 🔥…
SquareFroggo on
Nice.
CellNo5383 on
A non binding 5 point plan, one of which I suspect is unconstitutional and another one that is incredibly harmful but thankfully also unenforceable. What’s the point of this political theater other than pandering to populists?
Visible_Bat2176 on
haha cdu thinks it will win votes, but no, they are just legitimising the AFD discourse, so AFD will win votes, they will just alienate 1-2% of CDU more moderate voters :)) why settle with the copycat, when you can vote freely the original! the idea is simple: they are trying to trick us just for elections and back down later as usual, so AFD all the way it is! :))
Manndeufel on
If people still didn’t understand it now. Conservatives are only interested in power and whoever helps them they doesn’t care.
araujoms on
> “Wenn es hier heute eine solche Mehrheit gegeben hat, dann bedaure ich das.”
This disingenuous prick makes my blood boil. He knew exactly that this was going to happen, he doesn’t regret anything.
What we’re seeing is the end of the Brandmauer. The consequence, Austria has already shown: a far-right chancellor. Hope you’re happy being von Papen.
Firm_Mirror_9145 on
I hate the CDU but you look at polls and 92% of Germans or something like that don’t want more immigrants aka less.
BJonker1 on
That’s it, I’m calling it. AfD wins the elections. He gave them legitimacy and votes are going to flood in now. The same happened in NL. PVV was at 20 seats in the polls, until the VVD broke the cordon sanitair and they ended up winning with 30+ seats. All in the space of a month or so. This is going to be an exact copy and Merz is to dumb to see it.
eucariota92 on
Dark times for the lefties at reddit. Political parties in Europe are finally pushing for what people want.
Generic_Person_3833 on
Fitting media comment in german media:
> Because that is also a conclusion of this memorable debate in the Bundestag: the Federal Chancellor has indignantly explained what Friedrich Merz should not do or should not do for a thousand reasons. Olaf Scholz did not say what he himself wants to do apart from waiting. That is scandalously little in a situation like this, with the drooling AfD on the sidelines. It casts far more doubt on Olaf Scholz’s suitability to be chancellor than his retracted word casts doubt on Friedrich Merz’s suitability to be chancellor.
Our sitting government sits in apathy not understand the laws can be changed.
pc0999 on
Something tells me that the “center”-right will again ally itself with the far-right/Nazi parties.
Like it did in all Europe, but with far worse consequences in this case.
boomeronkelralf on
Very good and important
Roky1989 on
I hate AfD to the core of my soul, but fact is that the SPD and die Grünen should move on the question of migration in the same way as the parties in the nordic countries did.
I don’t know why he did it now. CDU was smooth sailing to a clear win. No coalition possible without them. Now, leftists are enraged and mobilized and will turn out on Election Day. while the right extremists got legitimized and people that felt so far ashamed to vote for them or simply thought it’s a wasted vote will now vote for them.
At the same time, I don’t really see that CDU is profiting from this. They could have waited 25 more days – these measures were anyway set to come, just look in their platform.
But now it’s gonna be interesting what the effect of this naive move will be
supremenema on
Good, maybe they can finally get their migration down.
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> The CDU/CSU parliamentary group has received a majority in the Bundestag for its demands for a drastic tightening of asylum policy. Parliament passed a five-point motion calling for, among other things, permanent border controls, refoulement of asylum seekers and the detention of foreigners who are required to leave the country. The FDP and AfD had signaled their support for the motion.
The CDU finally realised that the “Brandmauer” is a ploy by SPD and Greens that overproportionally strengthens their own positions and diminishes the voteshare and power the CDU has.
Very good.
Permanent border controls are such a terrible idea. I really hope it wont be implemented
Europe we fucked up badly pls send help
So Merz set his „Brandmauer“ on 🔥…
Nice.
A non binding 5 point plan, one of which I suspect is unconstitutional and another one that is incredibly harmful but thankfully also unenforceable. What’s the point of this political theater other than pandering to populists?
haha cdu thinks it will win votes, but no, they are just legitimising the AFD discourse, so AFD will win votes, they will just alienate 1-2% of CDU more moderate voters :)) why settle with the copycat, when you can vote freely the original! the idea is simple: they are trying to trick us just for elections and back down later as usual, so AFD all the way it is! :))
If people still didn’t understand it now. Conservatives are only interested in power and whoever helps them they doesn’t care.
> “Wenn es hier heute eine solche Mehrheit gegeben hat, dann bedaure ich das.”
This disingenuous prick makes my blood boil. He knew exactly that this was going to happen, he doesn’t regret anything.
What we’re seeing is the end of the Brandmauer. The consequence, Austria has already shown: a far-right chancellor. Hope you’re happy being von Papen.
I hate the CDU but you look at polls and 92% of Germans or something like that don’t want more immigrants aka less.
That’s it, I’m calling it. AfD wins the elections. He gave them legitimacy and votes are going to flood in now. The same happened in NL. PVV was at 20 seats in the polls, until the VVD broke the cordon sanitair and they ended up winning with 30+ seats. All in the space of a month or so. This is going to be an exact copy and Merz is to dumb to see it.
Dark times for the lefties at reddit. Political parties in Europe are finally pushing for what people want.
Fitting media comment in german media:
> Because that is also a conclusion of this memorable debate in the Bundestag: the Federal Chancellor has indignantly explained what Friedrich Merz should not do or should not do for a thousand reasons. Olaf Scholz did not say what he himself wants to do apart from waiting. That is scandalously little in a situation like this, with the drooling AfD on the sidelines. It casts far more doubt on Olaf Scholz’s suitability to be chancellor than his retracted word casts doubt on Friedrich Merz’s suitability to be chancellor.
Our sitting government sits in apathy not understand the laws can be changed.
Something tells me that the “center”-right will again ally itself with the far-right/Nazi parties.
Like it did in all Europe, but with far worse consequences in this case.
Very good and important
I hate AfD to the core of my soul, but fact is that the SPD and die Grünen should move on the question of migration in the same way as the parties in the nordic countries did.
Mind you that, according to an INSA poll, 66% of Germans approve of Friedrich Merz’ migration policies. Even a slight 56% majority of SPD voters do. [Source](https://www.derwesten.de/politik/merz-scholz-cdu-spd-migration-asyl-id301342144.html)
About time.
I don’t know why he did it now. CDU was smooth sailing to a clear win. No coalition possible without them. Now, leftists are enraged and mobilized and will turn out on Election Day. while the right extremists got legitimized and people that felt so far ashamed to vote for them or simply thought it’s a wasted vote will now vote for them.
At the same time, I don’t really see that CDU is profiting from this. They could have waited 25 more days – these measures were anyway set to come, just look in their platform.
But now it’s gonna be interesting what the effect of this naive move will be
Good, maybe they can finally get their migration down.
About time