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Berlin (APA / AFP) – German Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has spoken out in favor of an in-depth review of the United Nations pact on migration. "The debate on the pact on migration is still pending in the parliamentary group," said Spahn, who is running for the leadership of the CDU party, the "World on Sunday". "It is important that Germany retains its sovereignty to control and limit migration."
After the United States and Hungary, the Austrian government turquoise blue announced Wednesday that it did not want to sign the pact on migration. This also provoked an intense debate about the agreement in Germany. In Austria, the experts, the civil society, the opposition, but also the federal president, Alexander Van der Bellen and his predecessor, Heinz Fischer, strongly criticized the government.
The German Foreign Ministry warned against misinformation and said Friday that the UN treaty on migration was not an international treaty. The pact only articulated objectives, the criteria and the level of immigration remained "sovereign decisions of states", said a spokesman for the ministry and criticized the fact that in the debate on the pact on the migration, "fears are stoked".
The first "Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regulated Migration" of the UN will be officially adopted at a conference in Marrakesh on December 10th and 11th. It contains a number of guidelines and measures the implementation of which is not legally binding. It is about improving international cooperation on migration policy and standards for refugees.
In an interview with Welt am Sonntag, Spahn pointed out that the migration pact does not only concern the host countries, but also the responsibility of the countries of origin. "That's the real key, and part of the debate must also play a role."
The minister also spoke out against the end of the refugee debate. "The move does not help," he said. As long as migration problems are not solved in a perceptible way, "the subject will come back and cover everything". "We have not broken with federal elections in our bastions of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Saxony because of care policy or research policy," said Spahn. There should be no taboos in the debate.
The politician, who is considered a critic of Chancellor Angela Merkel, said the goal should be 40% of the vote given the current number of polls that the parties of the Union see at 24% . "For this, we need a personal and substantial renewal." His candidacy for the presidency of the CDU was an "offer for a generation and a change of style," he demanded broad and open debates within the party, followed by clear decisions. According to a survey published on Sunday, Spahn is the least popular of the three candidates previously declared to Merkel's estate at the head of the CDU. Among supporters of the Union, only nine percent want him as party leader, 44 percent are the former leader of the group, Friedrich Merz, 39% for the general secretary of the CDU, Annegret Kramp- Karrenbauer.
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