EU MPs vote on asylum reform package promoted by Green Party Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. Greens' party friends voted almost completely against all the details.
The Greens' disunity over migration policy last made headlines at the Karlsruhe party conference in November. In the EU Parliament, which has 705 members, the majority is never as clear as it is in the Bundestag, for example, where the Reds, Yellows and Greens almost always vote together and are absolutely in the majority. In Brussels/Strasbourg, party and national interests often collide and the factions are more fragmented.. “With their irresponsible actions, the Greens have played into the hands of the radical parties on the right and left and the opponents of Europe,” says CSU man Manfred Weber. The even more radically positioned members of the “ID” group are voting against it, probably also as a tactic: in the European election campaign, a broken pact would provide a boost for extreme and anti-European candidates.