MIGRATION: Power game between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz! Another asylum summit!

And with that we want to look to Dorothea Schupelius here in Berlin, who will sort the whole thing out for us. Good morning, Dorothea. So, only bed, bread and soap for certain refugee groups - how likely is it actually that this principle will be implemented? Because the Greens are likely to storm against it. Part of the package that is to be brought to this asylum summit are accelerated deportations and drastic reductions in benefits for refugees who enter via a safe European third country. Here, however, one wonders how the registration of these so-called Dublin cases should take place and the resulting cuts, because at the moment it is not possible to bring the so-called Dublin cases back to safe third countries, e.g. B. to Bulgaria and Italy. Hardly any of them go back there , partly because the other countries don't want to take them back, but also because there is too much bureaucracy there. This would have to be addressed; that would then be an important point. And when it comes to deportations, we have to work on the repatriation agreements, especially with the Greens. You are already addressing the important question: Will people be deported to Afghanistan and Syria or not? The Chancellor had already promised this year after the attack in Mannheim that this would be examined. The Green-led Foreign Ministry has so far stood in the way and cannot imagine this. We now have many suggestions, and the Greens are now also submitting their own paper. What's also interesting is that none of these proposals from the respective parties can be done without taking a serious jibe at the others. Therefore: What can one actually expect from this task force? Is it simply a matter of coordinating, coordinating, so that in the states, some of which are governed by the CDU, what the federal government has in mind is implemented? Of course, political calculation plays a role everywhere. State elections are coming up. What Friedrich Merz did when he essentially checkmated the Chancellor with his offer of cooperation was also a political calculation. The parties have different approaches when it comes to migration policy. I would like to talk again about this power play between the Federal Chancellor and the Union leader, because yesterday Friedrich Merz tried to play chancellor. He had extended his hand to the Chancellor to help the overwhelmed traffic light coalition with migration policy in its time of need. The Chancellor's reaction takes some of the wind out of Friedrich Merz's sails, because he had offered the Chancellor to assert his directive authority in order to get a majority with the Union without the Greens and the FDP. And presto, Friedrich Merz is sitting in a working group with the FDP, the Greens, Robert Habeck and the SPD at an asylum summit that several people had already attended, where in the end the result was not only for the Union, but also for the other parties and, above all, for the countries was not exactly satisfactory. Dorothea, thank you for the moment.

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