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| Merkel is fighting for her political life as Bavarian interior minister wants tough immigration policy |
| 2018-06-17 |
| Angela Merkel’s government is fighting for its political life as a row over immigration and asylum policy threatens a historic split in the German chancellor’s conservative bloc. Ms Merkel’s allies in the state of Bavaria, the CSU party, are pushing a new plan that would turn away more asylum seekers at Germany’s borders ‐ at odds with her welcoming refugee policy. The CSU, which is traditionally more conservative than the CDU party that organises in the rest of Germany, lost ground to the far-right AfD in parliamentary elections last year and fears a repeat in regional elections in October. The contentious new immigration policy, designed in part to head-off the AfD, was proposed by Ms Merkel’s CSU interior minister Horst Seehofer, but its publication has been suspended after an intervention behind the scenes from Ms Merkel. The plan would see refugees turned away at the borders if they were already registered in another EU country or lacked the correct documentation. But the chancellor is loathe to take any action that is not coordinated with Germany’s EU allies and reportedly sees the country’s approach to asylum as a part of her legacy. Globalists fighting tooth and nail to try and outnumber and outvote Westerners in their own countries. Good luck to you in Germany, may sanity break out at last. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy |
| #7 Sorry about that. Those 4 months went fast. And I wasn’t that interested. |
| Posted by: Clem Kadiddlehopper9000 2018-06-17 20:43 |
| #6 FUCK HER |
| Posted by: newc 2018-06-17 16:26 |
| #5 CDU forms a coalition with Liberals and Greens. This coalition has no majority. Anyway, I expect |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-06-17 15:51 |
| #4 EP Yes probably, but I can also see the following scenario: CSU and CDU split. CDU forms a coalition with Liberals and Greens. CSU fights a campaign as a conservative force to stop the rise of the AfD. But yes, Seehofer has this tradition. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2018-06-17 13:07 |
| #3 It took her a month to put the coalition together. More than 5 months. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-06-17 13:07 |
| #2 It took her a month to put the coalition together. At some point it’s not going to hold. |
| Posted by: Clem Kadiddlehopper9000 2018-06-17 12:00 |
| #1 The CSU and Mr Seehofer have a history of pouncing like a Bavarian lion and landing like a lion skin rug. They're more likely than not to ultimately blink and submit to Merkel as they've always done. I'm ready for a positive surprise, but I won't count on it. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-06-17 07:18 |