Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) sees fortified border installations as an effective means of getting a grip on the influx of refugees on the EU's external border with Belarus.
"We need fences and we probably also need walls," said Kretschmer on Tuesday in Brussels.
Even if it was so bitter and didn't make for nice pictures.
Brussels - "Nobody is interested in walls, but now it's about the European Union proving its defensibility."
Kretschmer had previously spoken to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
It should also have been about the refugees who come to Germany via Belarus and Poland.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is playing a perfidious game.
“I would like this European Union to be strong now and straighten its back.
We mustn't allow ourselves to be blackmailed by such a dictator. "
Lithuania, Latvia and especially Poland should get all the support they need.
“Only when the border there is tight and people can no longer be smuggled in will this phenomenon come to an end.” The crisis must be tackled by its roots.
On the one hand, it is about starting negotiations with the countries of origin.
On the other hand, sanctions should be issued against airlines that fly refugees to Belarus.
Thirdly, one needs “physical borders” that will be dismantled again when a democracy is established in Belarus.
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The district court of Görlitz has ordered a 23-year-old suspected smuggler in custody.
He is said to have driven a van with 27 illegally entered people in Görlitz on Tuesday, as the federal police announced on Wednesday.
The people in the transporter - including children, women and men - sometimes suffered from shortness of breath and were dehydrated.
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Maas: Airlines sluice in for Lukashenko migrants
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) accuses airlines of transporting illegal refugees to the EU via Belarus.
“Hundreds of desperate people arrive at the Minsk airport every day.
Lukashenko lures them with false promises, only to send them on a dangerous and illegal journey to the European Union, ”Maas told the“ Bild ”on Thursday.
Maas: Airlines sluice in for Lukashenko migrants
Stübgen hopes for a controlled entry despite the bottlenecks
Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) believes that the significantly increased number of migrants entering Brandenburg via Belarus has so far been under control.
"In the month of September we have an approximate six-fold increase in the number of migrants who come to Brandenburg across the land border compared to August," said Stübgen on Thursday in the state parliament in Potsdam.
Stübgen hopes for a controlled entry despite the bottlenecks
In addition, they must be turned back and deported even in winter.
There is no question of treating people coming to Europe properly.
But it is important to work with the same intensity to bring them back to their countries of origin.
Word should get around there not to rely on Lukashenko and not to give his money to smugglers.
In response to Western sanctions, the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko announced in the spring that he would no longer stop migrants en route to the European Union.
The number of irregular border crossings at the EU's external borders with Belarus and at the German-Polish border has increased since then.
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