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Interior Minister Seehofer wants to bring up to 150 refugees from Moria to Germany. But this has also received criticism within the government. “That has to be more,” Deputy Foreign Minister Scholz demanded of the situation in Lesbos.
According to Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Germany should receive more migrants from the destroyed Greek refugee camp of Moria than what Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) planned. The fact that ten European countries wanted to take in 400 unaccompanied minors could only be a first step in view of the terrible fate, said the SPD politician on the sidelines of a meeting of EU economy and finance ministers in Berlin. “That must be more and it must be a clear and clear step that Germany is also accompanying with its own will to host more refugees on a larger scale.”
Even without Europe, if necessary
The SPD chancellor candidate stressed that it would be good for other European countries to join, but that was not a prerequisite for German aid. “That we are definitely ready to do something that, I think, dictates our humanitarian common sense,” he emphasized. SPD Presidents Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans had already announced that they would “quickly” seek talks in the coalition on the issue. The SPD wants to talk about immediate humanitarian aid in place and the inclusion of “a significant proportion” of people in need.
Germany is also asked to become more involved in the Union. Seehofer’s cabinet and party colleague, Development Minister Gerd Müller, explained at the DeutschlandfunkGermany could set an example and accept 2000 people. Moria is a final wake-up call for the European Union. After five years of debate on refugees, the time has come to stop relying on a uniform European line, Müller said.
The foreign politician and aspiring to the presidency of the CDU party, Norbert Röttgen, renewed his demand to accept 5000 refugees from Moria in Germany. “5000 fewer people would considerably ease the situation in Greece. It is our Christian Democratic claim to politicians that we are helping now,” Röttgen told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. This applies regardless of the “fact that we urgently need to achieve practical results in European refugee policy”. The chairman of the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee described Moria as an “open wound in European refugee policy.”
The Greens await the Chancellor’s word of power
The opposition harshly attacks the Federal Interior Minister Seehofer. Green politician and vice president of the Bundestag, Claudia Roth, told the “Augsburger Allgemeine”: “Horst Seehofer’s announcement that only 100 to 150 minors from Moria will be admitted is a total failure of the interior minister.”
The commitment corresponds to only a fraction of the admission offers that have come from almost 180 municipalities and several federal states. With his negative attitude, the interior minister is jointly responsible for “inhuman suffering at Europe’s doorstep,” Roth said. He hopes that Chancellor Angela Merkel will use her competence in the guidelines and allow a generous reception in Germany.
“The minority should not determine the debate”
In fact, many cities and municipalities in Germany have the capacity to host refugees. According to the Beamtenbund dbb, there are free places in many reception facilities. Refugees who arrived in Germany in 2015 are now living in regular apartments or have left the country again, dbb president Ulrich Silberbach told the dpa news agency. “It is not hundreds of thousands of people at the moment, we are talking about a few thousand.” The will and the capacity at the municipal level are there to help spontaneously: “You will not find a mayor or district administrator who closes the door, you will find the will to help.”
The population is also very willing to help people in need, says Silberbach: “If about four-fifths are more willing to help and a maximum of one-fifth considers migration to be the devil’s thing, the minority should not determine the debate Civil society and public organizations must hold out here. “
