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Germany should close its borders to refugees, Angela Merkel's own transport minister says
The country can no longer show its "friendly face" if the number of refugees arriving doesn't fall soon, Angela Merkel is warned
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Migrants walk through a frozen field after crossing the border
from Macedonia, near the village of Miratovac, Serbia
Photo: Reuters
Germany must close its borders to refugees as it can no longer show its “friendly face” if the huge influx continues, its transport minister has urged Angela Merkel.
Alexander Dobrindt called on the chancellor to prepare to shut the
country’s borders unless other European countries agreed to help reduce
migrant numbers.
Mr
Dobrindt said Germany could no longer show the world a “friendly face”
as the country struggles to cope with the 1.1 million migrants who
arrived in 2015.
German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt
“I urgently advise: we must prepare ourselves for not being able to
avoid border closures,” Mr Dobrindt told the Münchner Merkur newspaper,
adding: “I would advise us all to prepare a plan B.”
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Mr Dobrindt is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the
Bavarian sister party to Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU),
which has been highly critical of the chancellor’s open-door refugee
policy.
Bavaria is the main entry point to Germany for refugees.
Mrs Merkel has promised to reduce the number of
arrivals this year, but has refused to impose an upper limit as she said
it would be impossible to enforce without closing Germany's borders.
She has instead tried to convince other European countries to take in quotas of refugees and pushed for reception centres to be built on Europe’s external borders. She has also led an EU campaign to convince Turkey to prevent refugees from entering the EU, but there are doubts over how much Turkey is doing to uphold its part of the bargain to curb the refugee flow in exchange for 3 billion euros (£2.3 billion) in EU aid funds.
Mr Dobrindt has rejected Mrs Merkel’s argument that closing borders would jeopardise the European project, saying: “The sentence, the closure of the border would see Europe fail, is true in reverse. Not closing the border, just going on, would bring Europe to its knees.”
A baby waiting with its parents to depart to Croatia by train from Presevo, Serbia
But other members of the coalition government remain resistant to the idea of closing the country's borders. Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a member of the Social Democrats, said it would not solve Europe's refugee crisis.
"The solution...does not lie with closing borders," Mr
Steinmeier said on Tuesday in response to a question referring to Mr
Dobrindt’s calls for border closures.
Mr Steinmeier added that it was essential to address the conflict in Syria, as well as working with Syria's neighbours to manage the refugee flow, while also setting up "hot spots" in Greece and Italy to handle those arriving in Europe.
It comes as the EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said Greece and Italy must have set up hotspots for registering and processing migrants and refugees within the next four weeks if they are to honour their commitments.
The hotspots are supposed to register arriving refugees, including recording their fingerprints and checking their details in an EU security database in order to distribute them to other states in the European Union.
“We have no more than four weeks in order to achieve results at the borders,” Mr Avramopoulos told German newspaper the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Bavaria is the main entry point to Germany for refugees.
She has instead tried to convince other European countries to take in quotas of refugees and pushed for reception centres to be built on Europe’s external borders. She has also led an EU campaign to convince Turkey to prevent refugees from entering the EU, but there are doubts over how much Turkey is doing to uphold its part of the bargain to curb the refugee flow in exchange for 3 billion euros (£2.3 billion) in EU aid funds.
Mr Dobrindt has rejected Mrs Merkel’s argument that closing borders would jeopardise the European project, saying: “The sentence, the closure of the border would see Europe fail, is true in reverse. Not closing the border, just going on, would bring Europe to its knees.”
A baby waiting with its parents to depart to Croatia by train from Presevo, Serbia
But other members of the coalition government remain resistant to the idea of closing the country's borders. Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a member of the Social Democrats, said it would not solve Europe's refugee crisis.
Mr Steinmeier added that it was essential to address the conflict in Syria, as well as working with Syria's neighbours to manage the refugee flow, while also setting up "hot spots" in Greece and Italy to handle those arriving in Europe.
It comes as the EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said Greece and Italy must have set up hotspots for registering and processing migrants and refugees within the next four weeks if they are to honour their commitments.
The hotspots are supposed to register arriving refugees, including recording their fingerprints and checking their details in an EU security database in order to distribute them to other states in the European Union.
“We have no more than four weeks in order to achieve results at the borders,” Mr Avramopoulos told German newspaper the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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