The CDU-CSU folks were in attendance at this meeting with the Premier-Presidents of the states, and the Chancellor. So the interesting to come out of this.....the CDU-CSU group handed a 26-point document to Scholz, asking for further changes.
Of interest?
First, they want a number of refugees to be accepted per year....of 200,000, then no more. So if Germany reached that point by April....the door would be shut in some way. Odds of this being accepted? I'd say presently....zero. Where the number of 200,000 came from? Out of thin air.
Second, they want the money given to refugees....to be NO higher than what German welfare pays out to Germans. This would be a pretty easy item to approve and the public would readily agree on.
Third, rights to remain after failing the asylum application request.....should be reduced. How they'd accomplish this? Unknown.
Fourth, the CDU-CSU folks want the EU to fund border control....aggressively. Even if Scholz agreed to this....getting the EU to agree would be nearly impossible.
Fifth, 'safe' countries need to be expanded upon (to include all of northern Africa).
Sixth and final, there's this suggestion of creating transit zones and holding centers at the borders....for those who obviously won't be approved because they come from a 'safe' country. The borders? Well....both Czech and Switzerland got mentioned. I'm pretty sure both would be peeved if suddenly 300 refugees bound for Germany....were turned back and forced back into Czech or Switzerland.
Scholz accepting or motivated for any of these? Here in 2023....NO. Maybe as we progress in 2024....the next 'fix' will be required to change the public's perception, and two or three of these ideas will be dragged out to put into some form.
The refugee issue....now a top three thing for future German elections? Yeah, and that's also motivating the EU.
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If only the CDU-CSU were in government during the last few decades...oh, wait, that's right, this is their mess they're now demanding others clean up.
Typical right wing nutjobs.
For roughly 20 years....Merkel's era was about a marginal asylum vision. 2013/2014...they (the Merkel coalition) just stood there...pretending that there was no rules or reason to act. It's only after the 31 December 2015 episode in Koln, and as the AfD Party grows in strength...that they wake-up and realize 'something' has to be done.
I would argue...it's like a chess-game being played at 1-quarter speed, and each action put into effect...is like a root-canal situation (awful painful for the government to act upon). You will notice, they always want the EU to force everyone to play the German-stupidity game, and three or four EU members always respond 'nein, danke'.
The two episodes that drew me to be awful critical? At some point (mid-2016), they (the federal gov't) admits that several hundred refugees are signed-up in several states (different names) multiple times, and getting cash under each alias (one guy had sixteen registrations...kinda bold, I thought). That made them order fingerprint hardware, but it took like six months to have this at each district office and another six months to get everyone re-validated in the system (IDing the bogus alias crowd).
Second episode, there must be at least a thousand adult men (over age 18) who entered and told the naïve Germans that they were just 13 or 14 years old. In some cases, it was reported refugee men in their 30s were IDing themselves as juveniles. So the gov't did eventually react and suggest they'd go to mandate a bone-test to determine actual fake juveniles. Well...the national doctor association said 'hell no'...we won't participate in something like this.
It was a comedy act a decade ago, and it's still a comedy act today. Getting any real significant change to occur is nearly impossible.
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