Friday, June 21, 2024

"He still hasn't understood it" - "An impertinence": CDU general attacks asylum plan sabotager Scholz

FOCUS online "He still hasn't understood it" - "An impertinence": CDU general attacks asylum plan sabotager Scholz Story from FOCUS Online • 20 hours • 1 minute reading time Olaf Scholz (SPD), Federal Chancellor, speaks at a press conference as part of the Prime Minister's Conference in the Federal Chancellery. Carsten Linnemann is angry. The reason: The CDU general sees no progress on the issue of deportations. At the Prime Minister's Conference on Thursday, Scholz merely announced another summit in December. "An impertinence," says Linnemann. "Olaf Scholz has evidently still not understood what the hour has struck." That's what CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann told the "Bild" newspaper after the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK) with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on Thursday. And he continued: "This MPK has not brought us any further." Instead of solutions, Scholz has only promised another date for talks - in December. "An impertinence," says Linnemann. The federal government wants to explain by December to what extent asylum procedures can also be carried out in third countries. Italy, for example, uses such a model. Refugees who arrive there are brought directly to Albania, where their claims are examined. But the examination alone is supposed to take until December, when another summit of state leaders and the chancellor will take place. Linnemann: "We need the new meeting in six weeks" Linnemann told "Bild": "We need this meeting not in six months, but in six weeks." Scholz is "delaying" the solution to the problem. And Scholz is only reliable in one thing: announcing new dates. Markus Söder sees it similarly: The Bavarian state boss told Bild: "Everything is only happening in baby steps when seven-league boots are needed." What is needed is an immediate program and not an endless loop. For months, a dispute has been simmering between the federal and state governments over the issue of migration. It is not just about the third-country solution. There are also repeated arguments over the deportation of criminal foreigners or the financing of refugee aid in the municipalities.