The Green Party leadership in the Bundestag has criticized the migration policy of the new federal government. Co-Fraktionspresidentin of the Greens, Katharina Dröge, told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (Friday edition): “Es ist gerade in dieser Zeit die Aufgabe eines deutschen Bundeskanzlers, die europäische Zusammenarbeit und Einigkeit zu stärken. Doch Merz hat es schon am ersten Tag seiner Amtszeit geschafft, unsere europäischen Nachbarn erheblich zu verärgern.”
On Wednesday evening, the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, criticized the migration policy of the new federal government during a visit to Warsaw. Shortly before, the new German Federal Minister of the Interior, Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), had initiated stricter border controls and Germany also wants to refuse entry to asylum seekers at the border in the future.
Dröge told the SZ that Merz, by implementing uncoordinated and tightened border controls at the border with Poland during his own visit to Poland, showed “how little Merz understood that one cannot act with a ‘Basta’-policy in Europe.”
Simultaneously, Merz risks an open breach of European law. “A German Chancellor should understand that we need European cooperation, not national solo operations.