Friedrich Merz: This is how media see his migration policy

CDU boss Friedrich Merz asks SPD and Greens to agree to the Union applications for a harder migration policy in order to achieve a demarcation from the AfD in the Bundestag. In the case of votes, “it is due to the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, to prevent majorities from that none of us want,” said the Union Chancellor’s candidate after consultations from the party leadership in Berlin.

While the FDP parliamentary group wants to agree, accuse the SPD and the Greens Merz and the Union to violate constitution and European law and to make the AfD hopeful. They also doubt that the CDU chief maintains the “fire wall” to the AfD. Merz strictly rejects the allegations and sees the applications as an urgent consequence of the knife attack with two deaths in Aschaffenburg last week.

“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”: “If the Union wins the choice, the question arises as to who would support migration policy, Merz makes the condition for each coalition. The FDP would be there. With the AfD, the Greens and the SPD can now go to the devil Painting the wall as they want, the CDU and CSU will not coalize the Union as necessary, as the AfD stood up – and whether it is good. The voters in the political center finally have a choice again with a view to migration policy. “

“Handelsblatt”: “With his language, Merz mobilizes those who also believe in the tenth year of the refugee crisis that the state can help without limitations. At the same time, he fails to speak of the limits of mercy as the head of a Christian party. again dedicate to the ‘economic election campaign’, which he actually wants to lead. “

“New Osnabrücker Zeitung”: “In satisfaction about your own past as an anti-Nazi bulwark, the comrades overlook and their chancellor apparently overlooked that they are at risk of losing their compass in the crucial campaign phase. According to a current INSA survey, 56 percent of the SPD supporters Merz will find themselves Properly. Find maximum confrontation with Merz, you should receive the receipt of the voter on February 23. “

“The mirror”: “Friedrich Merz has started to fell. He started a debate about the fire wall about the AfD without need, it may be the most serious mistake in his election campaign. Merz is jeopardizing what is actually his greatest capital: his credibility.”

“Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “The biggest problem in German migration policy is the tension that stands between the highly complex rule of law and immigration process- and the sheer number of applicants. Merz has freed itself from the thicket of the bureaucracy. The application for a decision have been a tactical large deed, for the government business he will have to add a few more indigements. ”

T-online: “If the topic of migration would be cleared before the election, the effect of which one can hope for the first time in a decade, then the feeling of fainting has been done. Then there may be no reason for many to choose the AfD. But to rush with the democratic parties again. In the course of the growing problem, it is up to date, her reason for existence is a triumphant Alice Weidel (the fire wall !!) The mills of their party turned into a ginstal from residual radicals. “

“The world”: “Once again it is the Union that has to direct the fortunes of the Federal Republic. Friedrich Merz and Carsten Linnemann have decided in a decisive moment of the election campaign, but more of the country, to settle from Merkel’s anti -policy. On two levels: firstly on the meta level, by throwing the postheroic idea of ​​asymmetrical voter demobilization on the garbage heap of history, and secondly, by finally saying goodbye to one of the catastrophic mistakes of the Federal Republic of post -war policy: naive, vain migration policy. “

“Weser-Kurier”: “It is questionable whether the Union is doing a favor with its rapidly written five-point plan. Because only the AfD benefits from the topic of migration. It is the only policy field on which the competencies in parts in parts are attributed. One Possible majority in the Bundestag with the FDP and the left and right-wing populists from AfD and BSW would strongly unsettle parts of the Christian Democratic Party. Perhaps.