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Union parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus
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CDU / CSU parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus has warned the traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP against a German special route in migration policy.
After a visit to the German-Polish border, Brinkhaus and parliamentary deputy Thorsten Frei (CDU) called on the federal government to both increase the pressure on Belarus and to intensify controls at the border.
Mostly young men came, said Brinkhaus.
Migration as a political weapon
The Union parliamentary group leader also said that the federal government still in office must act - also in coordination with the new government that is being formed. However, the exploratory paper suggests that a traffic light coalition is heading in a direction that differs from that of other EU countries. He spoke of a planned expansion of family reunification and better social benefits. Most of the EU countries are currently taking the other, opposite route, so there is a threat of a "pull effect" in Germany.
Group Vice Frei said that after the corona pandemic had flattened out, migratory movements would pick up again.
The subject is not on the agenda again.
"Basically, it was never really gone," said the CDU politician.
You can also see that many countries such as Morocco, Turkey or now Belarus are also using the issue of migration as a political weapon against the EU.
Since August, the number of immigrants and refugees entering Germany via Belarus and Poland has increased significantly.
Because Poland is the first Schengen country that people enter, they should actually apply for asylum there.
But many want to do this only in Germany.
The EU accuses the Belarusian ruler Lukashenko of deliberately smuggling refugees from the Middle East into the EU across the borders of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in order to retaliate against European sanctions against human rights abuses.
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