How do they suddenly sound?

t online How do they suddenly sound? Article by Johannes Bebermeier • 5 hours The green How do they suddenly sound? Ricarda Lang and Winfried Kretschmann: The very large intra-party coalition in migration policy. A guest article from the Greens caused a stir. He is striking a new, tougher tone in migration policy. Not everyone in the party likes that. If the tabloid "Bild" and the left-wing daily newspaper "taz" unanimously find a piece of news important, then it's worth taking a closer look. Especially when it comes to the Greens. “Green celebrities are calling for a change in asylum” writes the “Bild” newspaper with the comment: “Suddenly arrived in reality”. On the cover of the "taz" is emblazoned: "The new green asylum policy", illustrated with a red traffic light man that signals: Stop, stop! Asylum transition? New politics? What happened now? Well, on the one hand, not that much. Two leading Green politicians, party leader Ricarda Lang and Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, have written a guest article in the “Tagesspiegel” on migration policy. The five concrete proposals they make have been the party's line for weeks. But in politics it is often not just concrete proposals that matter, but also the tone in which they are presented. And in some passages of the article it seems like something new for the Greens. And for many left-wing Greens it would actually be something new. That's why there is now resistance in the party. The five concrete suggestions from the party leader and the Prime Minister are quickly presented: The federal government should provide better support to the municipalities. The Common European Asylum System is needed quickly. The asylum procedures in Germany must go faster. Migration agreements with the countries of origin are needed. And anyone who can work should be allowed to work. These are positions that many Greens can agree on in principle. The party leadership has been trying to formulate it again and again for weeks. But she doesn't really get through to the heated debate; many internally also see it that way. The guest article is therefore an attempt to present them again in a concentrated manner for the public. But it is more than that. The text is also intended to act as a signal to the party, as an attempt to commit the Greens, who are particularly agitated by migration policy, to a common position. In order to be able to appear more united publicly than has been possible in the past few weeks. An unusual coalition It is important to note who is actually writing here: Ricarda Lang is the party leader from the left-wing Green wing, who also has good connections to the very left-wing Green youth. Winfried Kretschmann is the only Green Prime Minister and a role model for many in the ultra-pragmatic Realo wing. Some left-wing Greens consider Kretschmann to be cynical when it comes to migration policy. Some Realos consider the left-wing Greens to be out of touch with the world. When two prominent representatives of the wing, Kretschmann and Lang, write a guest article, it is supposed to symbolize the really big coalition within the party. It should commit both sides to a common basis, to a compromise for which everyone has to work. And it should help pacify the internal party conflict. Leftists consider text to be counterproductive However, the pacification doesn't seem to be working very well. The Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt, who belongs to the Realo wing, quickly praised the text on the platform X (formerly Twitter) as an “offer to the democratic center”. In the left wing, however, it is viewed as counterproductive. This is due to a few sentences in the guest article that leftists see as a concession to a migration debate that has shifted to the right. And which they consider to be wrong and dangerous. “Not every person who comes to us can stay” is one such sentence. Another reads: "The willingness to take in more refugees is decreasing - right down to the middle of society." Just like the reference to the fact that the number of asylum seekers must now also decrease. Only a few leftists want to publicly criticize the guest article so as not to further intensify the conflict. The Bundestag member Misbah Khan did it anyway in an interview with the “taz”. And she formulates a criticism that many share: "There are basic rights, and we cannot deny people these because our infrastructure is overloaded," she says. "If we prepare well, we can handle a large number of people." There will always be refugee movements, says Khan. We have to look at how this challenge can be overcome sustainably. Many left-wing Greens believe that this reality should also shape the debate.