A German 'Drama'

I sat and was reading through various news media reports today, and there's this one report on a pro-asylum German rescue vessel organization in the Med (called Sea-Eye).  At some point last year, Italy started to toughen up port entry situations, and disallow any vessel trying to bring in rescued migrants from the African coast. 

This was resolved temporarily by France and a few other European countries on the Med, but their resolve in this involved the EU coming to order a dispersal of rescued members to various EU member states.  That hope dissolved over the past six months because the EU can't 'order' nations to accept migrants.  So almost no country in the Med wants to entertain rescue vessels.

Well....this Sea-Eye group....being a German-flagged vessel, says now that they just might entertain the idea of taking their 60 rescued migrants all the way out of the Med, around the coast of Spain and France, and dock in Hamburg.

The word 'drama' appears with the story because it has implications on the port of Hamburg, the Hamburg state government (it's a state by itself) and the German Interior Ministry.  The port wouldn't really care one way or another.  The city of Hamburg?  It's a pro-asylum region for the most part, and they'd likely make a big positive PR moment out of this.  But the federal government's Interior Ministry?  No, they wouldn't really entertain this idea or accept the idea of this being an acceptable rescue. 

Making a bigger mess out of this?  Go and figure the travel time, from the Libyan-Italian region of the Med, and you are talking about ten days for the craft to make this journey.  If this were to be proven successful, and migrants could be 'dumped' into Germany this way.....you'd likely see older passenger vessels rented out by the migrant-rescue crowd, and a 500-to-1000 passenger situation occurring on a weekly basis. 

The pressure on Germany?  Well, it'd mean that the Chancellor, the CDU-CSU-SPD coalition, and the Bundestag would have to go into some stall act, and just pretend no one was in charge....allowing frustrated Germans (the anti-asylum groups) to side with the AfD Party, and inflate their numbers even more.  Yes, the word 'drama' is appropriate in this case.