Asylum coverage: Olaf Scholz should not “give the impression of sitting in Friedrich Merz’s secretariat” | EUROtoday

Green European politician Erik Marquardt is demanding management from Chancellor Olaf Scholz within the dispute over potential rejections at German borders. “Olaf Scholz should explain to the public again who the Chancellor of this country actually is,” Marquardt informed the newspapers of the Funke media group. “He has to be careful not to give the impression that he is sitting in Friedrich Merz's secretariat. I would like to see leadership there.”

The EU parliamentarian believes that the CDU chief's name for rejections on the border isn’t productive. “Poland is doing exactly what Merz wants to do at the German-Polish border at the Belarusian border,” mentioned Marquardt. “It just doesn't lead to fewer people coming.” Migration coverage must be mentioned far more at a European stage. “To think that the German border can simply be closed is completely absurd.”

Green politician prefers to fight causes of flight

“We cannot build a wall around Germany so that no one can come in, that is completely unrealistic,” mentioned Svenja Borgschulte, spokeswoman for the Green Party's Federal Working Group on Migration and Refugees. “It also shows a total lack of solidarity with all our neighbouring countries,” she informed the Funke newspapers. “It would be important to change our perspective: How do we prevent people from having to flee?” More efforts to fight the causes of flight could be good, mentioned Borgschulte.

The Green politician additionally sees a “tendency to follow the current right-wing discourse” in her personal social gathering. This does the social gathering no good. “Instead, we should communicate more clearly where we have had success and what we cannot do.”