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Angela Merkel rekindled Tuesday tensions over migrants in Europe, after deciding a net migration tour to the German borders to prevent his government from falling.
Facing the pressure of the wing the To the far right of her government coalition which was threatening to slam the door, the German Chancellor has de facto agreed to definitively close her generous migration policy of 2015-2016, when her country had welcomed 1.2 million asylum seekers. [19659002] Compromise reached after weeks of conflict with Interior Minister Horst Seehofer plans to return asylum seekers already registered elsewhere in the EU to the country of entry, or failing to return them to the EU Neighboring Austria, in the framework of a bilateral agreement.
But Austria, governed by the extreme right and the conservatives, has issued a warning in Berlin.
The country "is certainly not ready to make any agreements to its detriment," Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Tuesday.
Vienna also threatened to "take steps to protect its southern borders" with the country. Italy and Slovenia in response to German measures. And Interior Minister Herbert Kickl implicitly implicated Angela Merkel: "Austria can not yet bear the brunt of the legacy of a failing and failing reception culture. certain names in Europe. "
For his part, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the German daily Bild that he intended to speak on the telephone with Mr Kurz, stressing that" the Hungarian position has remained unchanged since 2015 and it is also the EU's position since the Brussels Summit: protection of the EU's external borders and reception centers outside the EU. "
-" Effect domino "-
The agreement concluded Monday night in Germany between the center-right party (CDU) of Merkel and the very conservative Bavarian party CSU plans to place migrants arriving in Germany, but already registered in another EU country, in "transit centers" at the border with Austria. This concerns on average a quarter of the total number of asylum seekers.
In an attempt to round off the angles with Vienna, Horst Seehofer, at the origin of the sling against Merkel, will visit on Thursday Mr. Kurz .
As Italy, the main country of arrival of migrants to Europe and complaining of the lack of European solidarity, would be the first country concerned if Germany and Austria started to repress migrants. And while the last summit of EU leaders on migrants in Brussels had promised more support for Rome and promoted European solutions.
– "Internment camps" –
The head of diplomacy Italian, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, criticized the Austrian threats of reinforced controls at the border with Italy. He urged not to take measures that could "lead to a situation of closure" between European countries.
And his colleague of the Interior, Matteao Salvini, warned that his country would not sit idly by. "If Austria wants to make controls, it has all the right, we will do the same thing," he warned
The head of the Czech government, Andrej Babis, very critical of the Germany's policy of openness to migrants, welcomed the new firmness displayed by Angela Merkel
Migrants "who land in Italy or Greece do not have the right to choose to live in Germany. Let's hope that Italy and Greece will understand and close their borders, "he said on Twitter.
Embarrbaded on the European level, in Germany, the Chancellor is not out of business for her government crisis
If it has succeeded in calming its Minister of the Interior, it must now convince its other government partner, the Social Democrat Party (SPD), to endorse the agreement.
The latter was optimistic: President Andrea Nahles badured that "progress" had been were registered after a first meeting to discuss this plan with Mrs Merkel and Mr Seehofer on Tuesday evening at the Chancery. They must meet again Thursday evening.
"We are not quite yet" to an agreement, said Nahles.
The SPD is reserved and criticizes in particular the name of "centers of transit" , a concept he rejected in 2015 at the height of the migratory wave.
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