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The CDU and CSU hold a “peace summit”

In the shadow of the Brexit vote, the tips of the Union will meet on Friday and Saturday in the tranquil ambience in which to retreat. Do you want to finally settle the debilitating dispute over refugee policy.

For well over a year, the two Christian democratic sister parties, the CDU and the CSU to carry out its political dispute in Public – not only, but in the most massive on the refugee policy. The Good point: Meanwhile, this dispute has resigned from his debilitating stage. Recently, both parties agreed with each other and then with the third coalition partner in the Federal government, the SPD, about some of the other long-debated questions: how is it with the promotion of Renewable energies should go and how the inheritance does not make tax law so that the constitutional judges inserting their Veto.

Nevertheless, the CDU and CSU want to pull now two days into the peaceful Potsdam, on the outskirts of Berlin, to organize officially, a sort of “peace summit”. But in the center only, the search of Union’s internal harmony is not: Both parties are also Worried about their future.

Times of need for people’s parties

If you look in the other countries of Europe, the decades of self – evident Power of the classical national parties-the social Democrats and the Conservatives seems to be eroding. You will be beset from right and left populists. The German social-democracy has arrived in some States on that descent path and creates just a two-digit approval numbers. Nationwide, the poll numbers are below 20 percent, a historical low. A similar fate threatens the Union now? The German right-wing populists, the AfD, currently around 15 percent – at the expense of the other parties.

Agreement in an inheritance tax dispute: Seehofer, Merkel and Hasselfeldt in June in the Bundestag

The CDU is only just over 30 per cent, ten percentage points less than for the Bundestag election in September 2013. The location for the Bavarian CSU only computer is with values above 40 percent table more relaxed. Because that’s where the expectations are also higher: The CSU in Bavaria is to win elections, always an absolute majority so it can govern without a coalition partner in Munich. Only then, my the Christian-social, you could have a say in the Federal politics. CSU leader Horst Seehofer wants to have to ask, he says, is not only a “third” before it occurs in the Chancellery. The often-cited image is the coat of arms of the lion from the Bavarian state. Power – and impressively, he roars from Munich in direction to Berlin – so at least it sees the self-image of the CSU.

Christian Social Threats

It is also the clock is always organic rationale behind this is that, if the political dispute is played out in the Public. Because on the public stage, you can emphasize your own profile. A little arguing is okay. However, the limit to the Destructive is narrow. To much controversy in the German Public, which loves to be the consensus, good. The recent dispute between the CSU and the CDU was a case in point. He ran out of the rudder. Why?

The CDU and the CSU had fundamental differences of opinion in matters of asylum and refugee policy. The CDU leader and Chancellor Angela Merkel continued over a period of months on a European solution, in order to distribute the Protection. The CSU leadership, shared this approach although, pushed, but the fact that no European agreement on quotas was reached for the distribution of the new arrivals. Your proposal: National foreclosure should complement the European plans. But the Chancellor wanted to know nothing.

Most of the refugees were on the Austrian-Bavarian border to Germany

The CSU leader has built so noticeably more pressure. The threats ranged from a mandatory upper limit for the number of asylum-seekers on a constitutional challenge to the announcement that the group community in the Federal terminate. The latter is the sharpest weapon of the CSU. The Christmas social have you brought so far, only a Change in stroke, in 1976 for a few weeks, and then peace was restored and the CSU got now more attention on the former government’s Bonn headquarters.

Get it all together before the elections to the Bundestag

Ultimately, it was the Austrian government, which provided for relaxation in the Union. After Vienna had blocked off the Balkan route, with its own upper limits, were also in Germany hardly still refugees.

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But the quarrel had left wounds. Especially Seehofer’s public scolding, he abkanzelte Merkel on the stage of the CSU-party tags, will probably go down in the annals of party history. The took him many CDU members are evil – even those who were in the refugee question on his line.

In Potsdam, the opponents want to take the future into view a “nice weekend”, such as the CSU Chief in the Bundestag, Gerda Hasselfeldt, the atmosphere of the press described. Dealing with the past would not be on the Agenda. “We want to pull ourselves back together, and the people of our policies inspire,” added CSU Secretary-General Andreas Scheuer. His colleague, CDU General Secretary Peter Tauber, called the great themes that would be discussed: Europe, competitiveness, Innovation, digitalization, social cohesion and Migration. For this purpose, the party leaders wanted to develop common positions.

The Union must get its act together. In a year of the Bundestag elections. In the midst of the dispute, the CSU had been threatened with separate choice programs. The speech was shortly before the Meeting.

Instead, it should also be about dealing with the Greens. The CDU wants to keep this coalition option for the 2017 open. In the case of the CSU, there are massive concerns against a black-green Alliance. Particularly in asylum policy, the trenches are very deep between the CSU and the Greens in the Federal government, working for a more or less unlimited welcome culture. The theme has not lost its potential explosive power.