Migration debate: FDP suggests “Mitte migration pact”

The FDP wants to win with a new attempt Union, SPD and the Greens for a “Migration Pact of the Middle”. For this purpose, the content of the inflow limitation law failed on Friday in the Bundestag is to be transferred to the law for the reform of the common European asylum system.

“On the last day of the meeting before the Bundestag election, both laws are decided together with the votes of the broad democratic middle of the Bundestag,” suggests the FDP parliamentary group chairman Christian Dürr in a letter to his counterparts from the SPD, Union and the Greens. It is available to the German Press Agency in Berlin.

The Union’s draft law to limit migration failed on Friday in the Bundestag despite the approval of the AfD. CDU boss Friedrich Merz-Chancellor candidate of the Union-had previously caused outrage because he accepted in the Bundestag on Wednesday that his five-point plan for migration policy only received a majority thanks to AfD votes. However, this decision does not have a binding effect.

FDP: Decision possible on February 11th

The FDP parliamentary group writes about its proposal that the “overall overall package” can be completed on Friday of this week in a special meeting of the interior committee – “not to hear the Union and SPD. It could then be decided as a law on February 11th in the Bundestag.

The SPD and Greens voted against the influx limitation law proposed by the Union. The Social Democrats had expressed constitutional concerns. The most controversial point of the draft law was the suspension of family reunification to refugees with limited protection status. These are often war refugees, for example from Syria. “The Federal Constitutional Court will probably never allow a sentence in which someone who lives here for 10, 15, 20 years – justified – must not make up for his wife,” said Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).

“If we don’t want populists and radicals to end up as the winner, we now have to show that we are able to solutions from the middle,” says the letter in Dürrs. The FDP parliamentary group leader told the dpa: “Union, Greens and SPD now have the chance to prove that they are serious and actually want to implement a different migration policy.”