Migration policy: dispute over Merz plans-SPD is against it

According to a report, the SPD does not want to support the “migration turn” planned by CDU boss Friedrich Merz in the coalition negotiations. As the “Bild” newspaper (Thursday edition) reports, citing negotiation circles, the SPD in the “Interior and Law” working group “refuses above all the Union’s demand for general rejections of asylum seekers at the German state border. The SPD politician Ralf Stegner from the working group pulled a clear red line.

The “picture” he said that a future coalition would “break neither European law and endanger the European unification that has just been achieved, nor agree with our neighbors conflicts where cooperation is now offered”. According to the newspaper, there is a dispute over the question of whether Germany only has to inform its EU neighboring states about the rejections in advance or obtain their consent.

Leading SPD politicians had publicly emphasized several times that the EU neighboring states should consent. The CDU tip around Merz and Secretary General Carsten Linnemann and the CSU leadership, on the other hand, had always emphasized that it is sufficient to inform the neighboring countries. It was not clear whether one could agree on a compromise by Monday, according to the newspaper in negotiation circles.

In migration policy there are significant differences between the Union and the SPD, which have been negotiating the formation of a coalition since last week. It has already been agreed to expressly write the goal of the “limitation” of migration again in the Residence Act.

However, a dispute has flared up between the two sides about the interpretation of the joint probing agreements on migration policy. The reason is the Union’s move that Germany can reject asylum seekers at the German borders in the future without the consent of the neighboring countries concerned. The SPD, on the other hand, considers such a procedure to be legally questionable.

The SPD politician Stegner continued about the future migration policy of a black and red federal government: “In people who have come to us and have nothing to come to debts, the SPD will not be shakiness.”

The German police union warned the CDU of concessions to the SPD in migration policy. “There must be no cuts in the turn in asylum policy. This also explicitly applies to rejections at the border, which are also offered when an asylum request is being issued,” said trade unionist Rainer Wendt in an open letter to Merz. “You not only have to write down the reduction of illegal immigration, it must also be enforced on site.”

Saxony’s CDU Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer believes that the Migration dispute with the SPD believes. “From the end of the next week we will sitting together in a top round and the conflicts will clarify and then hopefully will come to a result in a few days,” he told the TV station world.

“I am very, very good things that we succeed in really pressing this migration back. 500,000 people in the past two years – it is completely clear that people no longer participate in Germany,” said Kretschmer. “And the SPD also understood that.”