Driven by the knife attack by a 28-year-old Afghan in Aschaffenburg, Bavarian, CDU Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz called for a “factual prohibition on arrival” for illegal immigrants and permanent border controls. The transition Chancellor of Austria Alexander Schallenberg welcomes the reconsideration in the neighboring country.
When asked by a corresponding journalist question, Schallenberg said on Monday during the EU Minister of Foreign Affairs in Brussels that he is happy that there is now more realism and pragmatism in Germany. The red-white-red head of the government that Austria has been the state in continental Europe since 2015, which has the largest number of asylum applications per head of the population. “I am happy with every EU state that approaches the issue with greater pragmatism,” said Schallenberg.
“Debate is going in the right direction”
However, he emphasized that the rules of the Schengen Codex still have to be observed. This regulates the transitions on the domestic and external boundaries of the so -called Schengen area. Schallenberg appealed to “Common Solutions”: “If each of us now raises the voltage bridges, we are all poorer and there is no safer”. The public debate in the European Union is finally going in the right direction.
German Vice -Kanselier warns of the right government
The German Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economy Robert Habeck (Greens) meanwhile warned on Sunday that the right side takes over the right in Germany. “If it can happen in Austria, it can also happen in Germany,” Habeck said at the Greens’ Party Congress in Berlin. “And the decision whether this is happening is now available,” the candidate of De Groene Chancellor continued.
Source: Krone
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