When it comes to refugees, people are currently heated. Also in the ranks of the CDU. AKK successor candidate Röttgen now attacked his competitor Merz.
- CDU politician Norbert Röttgen sharply criticized his competitor for CDU chairmanship Friedrich Merz .
- The reason is a statement by Merz about the current influx of migrants .
- And Röttgen also handed out against NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet .
Berlin - Norbert Röttgen has criticized a statement by his party colleague and competitor Friedrich Merz about the recent influx of migrants at the Greek external EU border. Previously, Merz had asked to give the refugees a signal there: "There is no point in coming to Germany". Röttgen said to the Handelsblatt : "With all due respect to Friedrich Merz *: This statement is doubly wrong , in terms of tone and matter."
Röttgen's criticism referred, among other things, to the Geneva Refugee Convention
Röttgen * justified his criticism with the Basic Law, among other things. "We have an asylum promise in the Basic Law that we will accept those who are persecuted," he emphasized. The Geneva Refugee Convention also requires this, Röttgen further argued. “That is why Germany is legally, historically and politically a country that does not ignore the needs of persecuted people. And for the CDU, which bears the Christian in its name, this applies in moral reinforcement . ”The tone was also wrong because it did not express the empathy “ that we have when people flee from bombs ”. Röttgen himself made his empathy for the people on the Turkish-Greek border clear on Twitter. There he wrote in a post calling for solidarity with Greece and help for the refugees in Turkey.
We are dealing with a dramatic humanitarian catastrophe. We should focus the debate on this now. What do you have to do? Three things: solidarity with #Greece, help for # refugees
in # Turkey & finally pressure on # Putin.https: //t.co/304zkekGsc
On February 29, Turkey declared the border with the EU open . As a result, thousands of migrants made their way to the EU. Greece fought them off with harshness at the EU's external borders. However, Röttgen described it as correct that Greece closed its border for refugees . "Everything that Greece needs in support must and can provide the other Europeans."
Röttgen also handed out against Laschet - he had said "undifferentiated"
The third applicant for the CDU federal presidency , NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet *, recently commented on the topic of refugees . Röttgen described his statement that Chancellor Angela Merkel's handling of the refugee crisis was correct, as "undifferentiated" . With regard to the 2015 crisis, he said: "There were right things and things that didn't go well."
By the way: Refugees quarreled in the ranks of the Union already at the weekend. A politician is said to have even yelled at Horst Seehofer (CSU).
Also interesting: Merz did not save criticism either recently. However, this is aimed at the Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
dpa, cia
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital-Redak
