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Friedrich Meretz, the Christian Democrats’ presidential candidate, with whom German Chancellor Angela Merkel is affiliated, has opposed admitting refugees from refugee camps in Greece or Bosnia.
In statements made by Deutsche Welle, Meretz said: “The entire European Union is particularly obliged to help refugees at their sites in the Balkans or on the Greek islands, but this humanitarian catastrophe cannot be solved by saying: Everyone is coming to Germany. This road is no longer open. ” .
Meretz highlighted the need for Europe to enter into agreements with countries of origin or transit to “prevent illegal and life-threatening migration across the Mediterranean from countries of origin.” He said: “The clear message for refugee and smuggling organizations should be: this issue is life threatening and it will not work.”
He called for stricter deportations than in previous years, indicating on the other hand that Germany could not deport the refugees who were rejected to the extent necessary until further notice.
Meretz said that in the case of Syria, for example, there are legal, humanitarian and realistic obstacles, due to the lack of airlines and open land routes. He said: “Therefore, deportation to Syria will not be possible except in individual cases.”
The blanket ban on deportation to Syria is reported to have ended at the end of 2020 after the interior ministers of the states agreed to this. The Social Democratic ministers sought to extend it without restrictions, while the ministers of the Christian coalition sought not to rule out the deportation of dangerous criminals. The ministers agreed to study each case separately.
Merkel’s conservative party must elect its leader during a hypothetical conference in mid-December, after the date was postponed twice. Members of the Christian Democratic Union will have to choose between the moderate Armin Laschet, who runs North Rhine-Westphalia, the liberal Frederick Merz, who is a long-time opponent of Merkel, and Norbert Röttgen, a foreign policy expert.
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