Refugees

Merkel calls for a decision

Drama is the Chancellor not. Completely sober, Angela Merkel in the Bundestag, their line in the refugee policy defended, but also placed at the disposal. Then that borders would have to be closed.

She has tired of it, further and further into the corner to be crowded? Or follow Angela Merkel only consistently your well-known schedule? Angela Merkel has never made a secret of the fact that the Meeting of the heads of state and government of the European Union in Brussels on Thursday and Friday for a turning point in coping with the refugee crisis. In fact, for the Chancellor with the summit, the point at which a fundamental decision must fall.

“We are with our European-Turkish approach on the basis of the EU-Turkey Agenda, we are at the 29. November of last year, they decided jointly for the comprehensive tackling of the root causes for migration and for the protection of the external borders so far advanced, that it’s worth it, this path, because, with him, the illegal Migration, significantly reduce what the most important requirement for legal quotas?” asked Merkel in the German Bundestag in Berlin.

Chancellor Merkel in the Bundestag: “the way that it is further worth to go”

“Or we have to give up and instead, as now, some vehemently claiming that the Greek-Bulgarian-Macedonian border close, with all the consequences for Greece and the European Union as a whole?”, outline the Alternative.

Merkel wants to fight – until the last

Understand that your energy use, “the European-Turkish approach as the way turns out to be, it is further worth to go,” said Angela Merkel, the no bones about it, that makes your point as in principle there holds. The EU must do everything to the problems to be overcome, not Europe, and as a result all member States to damage them. The question whether it was worth the way to go, or give up, but the “Bewertungssituation” for the mid-term review, which the Chancellor, after the Council to make wool and will.

It’s now all or nothing. The Chancellor speaks of a historic test for the EU. You will continue to fight for the Flüchtlingszahlen thereby to reduce the root causes for migration set will and the external borders of the European Union secured would, she said. “We need to learn as the EU, including maritime borders to protect and this is more difficult, as the land borders to protect.” The go but only in balance and in conversation with the neighbors, she said with a glance at the Turkey. “Who is only with foreclosure responds and says whoever is behind the fence sits, we are not interested in, this can’t be the European answer, at least not according to my firm Conviction.”

Not make a fool of

The Chancellor makes in your opinion is still not swayed, this was in her 26-minute statement in Parliament to clear. In principle, she feels supported by the Germans also supported. “Despite all the critical surveys: Over 90 percent of citizens say the following: Who from Terror, war and persecution, flees, in Germany, the possibility of recording and protection. I think that’s wonderful.”

Visegrad leaders with colleagues from Bulagrien and Macedonia: preparations for Grenzschließung

On the other hand, knows Merkel but also to their limits. Too many EU countries have already turned their backs. Your Plan, refugees under quotas to the EU to distribute, is dead. That’s why he is in Brussels now. “The success or failure of this Council to decide not really to the question of quotas,” she said. “We were in Europe also ridiculous, according to the 160,000 of which we have agreed, have not yet even begun to be distributed, on Friday, on top of quotas to decide.” That would be the second step before the first, said the Chancellor.

Controversy in the Parliament

Almost one and a half hours it took on the government policy statement following debate in the Parliament. For the coalition partners, the SPD made its Chairman Thomas Oppermann clear that the social Democrats, Merkel’s Verhandlungslinie for the upcoming EU summit mitträgt. The concept of the Chancellor was “still right.” The number and speed with which the refugees come into the country, would have to be significantly reduced. “To the truth, but it also belongs to the coalition of the willing is not great,” said Oppermann. This should however not lead to EU-countries according to the Motto “Save yourself if you can” from the field made: “national going it alone is nothing, but nothing in Europe is better.”

Sahra Wagenknecht: “difference between Talk and pay court”

This is also the opinion of the left party, which, however, no longer believes that it is in the refugee crisis a European solution. How to listen, to have Merkel “this concern is given up on themselves,” said the Left-Fraktionschefin Sahra Wagenknecht to the policy statement of the Chancellor. Sharp criticism expressed Wagenknecht in the negotiations of the EU with Turkey. “We also know that it is in the foreign policy is inevitable, even with unpleasant regimes to talk”, says Wagenknecht. “But there is a difference between Talk and pay court.”

It was irrational, to the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The did through his “bloody politics against the Kurds in his own country and with its support of Islamist Terrorbanden in Syria” even discredited. “The transformation of Turkey into a Flüchtlingsgefängnis under supervisor Erdogan, Europe limitless blackmail, because he is always the key to this prison is in the bag keeps you, which is no solution, this is a moral Declaration of bankruptcy”, says Wagenknecht.

Second Issue: Brexit

Before the EU heads of state and government in Brussels on Friday with the refugee crisis to deal, on Thursday first, the impending retirement of the UK on the summit Agenda. In June the British in a Referendum on a “Brexit”. In order to prevent it, the British Prime Minister David Cameron a number of reforms in the EU to enforce, including an “emergency brake” for social security benefits for EU migrant workers and a greater say of the Non-Euro countries in Euro-decisions.

EU-Partner Cameron and Angela Merkel: “Not only British interests,”

Receivables for which Cameron the German Chancellor is on his side. “It is the concern of David Cameron’s not only for British interests,” Merkel said in the Bundestag. “With some of the questions you have to say: Quite the opposite.” They also consider it necessary that the EU more in order to increase competitiveness, transparency and reduction of bureaucracy there. Also could anyone who does not have the Euro have, in the fundamental decisions of the Euro-countries cannot be ignored.

However, should the discussion about moral hazard in the European welfare systems neither the freedom of movement in EU into question, nor should EU citizens be discriminated against. “These two principles are not up for grabs,” she said.