Merz is turning out to be just another Merckel when it comes to the jihadist invasion - all talk and no action. The next election will be "interesting"!
From The European Conservative
By Michael Curzon
Once again, the incoming German chancellor has given the lie to his border pledges, this time surprising even his own CDU officials.
Another day, another major migration U-turn by Germany’s incoming chancellor. This time, Friedrich Merz has claimed he wants to reduce the number of new asylum applications to below 100,000, despite saying before the election that he would impose a “de facto entry ban” for all those without valid entry documents.
Merz’s previous pledge followed the murder in January of a two-year-old toddler and a 41-year-old man by a failed Afghan asylum seeker—prime time for heartstring-pulling.This subsequent backtracking won’t surprise many, including here at europeanconservative.com, which warned that “Merz’s promises to be tough on immigration should be listened to with caution.” That said, German paper Bild did report on Monday that Merz’s 100,000 comment had “caused surprise among high-ranking CDU politicians.” Perhaps they’ve not been paying close enough attention.
The incoming chancellor was not specific about supposed limits on asylum entrants, saying only that “it can no longer be a six-digit number.” Last year, just shy of 230,000 initial asylum applications were filed in Germany.
AfD politician Lars Haise joked in response:
Nothing says “I’m ready for responsibility” like a nice, round, completely unrealistic number!
His party colleague Lars Haise added that only the AfD would actually impose the kind of entry ban that Merz previously alluded to.
In Sweden, too, conservative writer Ronie Berggren said the German system has become “overloaded,” meaning deportations “are the only way to really change course.”
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