Just before the refugee summit, the AfD is experiencing a soaring popularity in the polls. One expert sees the party benefiting from immigration and "heating theater" Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) said in the Bundestag that there was "no major migration crisis" in Germany.
The fact that the demand for asylum procedures at the EU's external border comes from the SPD, of all people, is particularly surprising for political scientist Ursula Münch. "That will still cause a dispute in the traffic lights," she says.