Jens Spahn calls on Olaf Scholz to vote on migration policy without the Greens

THE MIRROR Jens Spahn calls on Olaf Scholz to vote on migration policy without the Greens Article by Marc Röhlig • 5 hours The traffic light wants to deport more, Green Party leader Lang has already sworn her party towards a tougher asylum course. However, CDU Vice President Spahn doesn't believe this - and is now pushing for a way past the Greens. Union parliamentary group vice-president Jens Spahn considers the Greens to be untrustworthy given the traffic light government's announced tougher asylum course. In a conversation with the Funke media group, the former Health Minister called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to lift the faction requirement for individual votes on migration policy in the Bundestag. Limiting migration can only be achieved if laws in the Bundestag and the EU are changed, said Spahn. »The Greens still have a long way to go. That's why we say: Mr. Chancellor, if in doubt, these issues must be dealt with without the Greens. The Chancellor can approve individual votes. "Just like at the beginning of this electoral period with compulsory vaccination, when Olaf Scholz did not have a majority in his own coalition." DER SPIEGEL summarizes the most important news of the day for you: What was really important today - and what it means. Your daily newsletter update at 6 p.m. Subscribe now for free. The suspicion is no coincidence; the left wing of the Greens in particular is against tightening migration policy. At the same time, however, a majority of the Greens are behind the traffic lights. It was only on Wednesday that Green Party leader Ricarda Lang and Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann made a joint appeal justifying a tougher approach to deportations and faster asylum procedures. Spahn demands a reduction in benefits In the interview, Spahn himself spoke out in favor of drastic cuts in benefits for asylum seekers. "When it comes to the amount of social benefits, we have to differentiate between three groups: those who have to leave the country, those who enjoy temporary protection and those who have a permanent right of residence." Only the third group should receive regular social benefits. In order to implement it, the constitution must be changed if necessary, demanded Spahn. According to the current legal situation, even foreigners who are required to leave the country would be treated the same as recipients of citizenship benefits. »When the world changes, you also have to adapt the rules. Our basic right to asylum was not designed for today's form of irregular mass migration. CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann meanwhile called on the traffic light to stop the law on the planned reform of citizenship law. »Such a law does not solve a single problem, especially in the current political situation, but only creates new ones. The law must be stopped," he told the "Bild" newspaper.