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The agreement of Chancellor Angela Merkel to save her government, which provides for the expulsion of migrants entering Germany, caused on Tuesday criticism and questioning in Austria and Italy, where she could have a dominant effect. threatening the executive, Angela Merkel actually agreed to end the generous welcome policy launched in 2015, when her country welcomed 1.2 million asylum seekers.
The last-minute agreement concluded on Monday night between the Chancellor's center-right party (CDU) and the Conservative party bvaro CSU provides for the installation of "transit centers" at the border between the Germany and Austria for asylum seekers have been registered in another country of Europe.
Vienna accused Berlin of not taking the neighbor into account. "If the German government validates the compromise reached Monday night, we will be forced to take measures to avoid the disadvantages for Austria and its people," said the head of Austrian diplomacy, Karin Kneissl.
said the Austrian Government in a statement.
– Dominant Effect –
The agreement affects on average 25% of asylum seekers, who are able to protect their borders, especially in the south, with Italy and the United States. Slovenia. may be expelled under bilateral agreements. In the first five months of 2018, nearly 69,000 asylum seekers entered the country according to official statistics
The measure also includes a return to the European Union (EU) through which they entered the block under bilateral agreements. . In cases where it is not possible to reach an agreement, they will be deported to Austria, the most frequent country through which Germany arrives.
In an attempt to approach positions with Vienna's German Interior Minister, conservative Horst Seehofer announced that he would visit Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz as soon as possible.
Italy, the main entry point for migrants to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea, will not sit idly by.
"If Austria wants to establish controls, it has all rights, we will do the same," warned the Italian Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini
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That year, the Chancellor made the political decision to open the doors of her country to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers. asylum
The concessions made by Angela Merkel, under pressure from the right, threaten the main principles of the pact reached at the last EU meeting on migrants, in which the leaders pledged to favor the European solutions and not individual, as well as to help Italy
– Turbulence in Germany –
Even if the Chancellor managed to calm the Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, having to convince the other allies of the coalition, this time the center bench that (19659002) A At present, the Social Democrat Party (SPD) remains silent, asking for time to consider the proposal.
A meeting is scheduled on Tuesday between the three members of the coalition government, CDU of Angela Merkel, CSU of the Minister of the Interior and SPD
One of the social experts- Democrats on the issue of migration, Aziz Bozkurt, criticized the agreement, which for him "goes totally on the way to the far right".
Ecologists and the Radical Left in Germany have compared the idea of "transit centers" and "concentration camps" in reference to Germany's Nazi past, and asked the Social Democrats to reject l & # 39; agreement.
Angela Merkel remains under pressure. Despite avoiding the fall of his government, he left the crisis politically more weakened by the attacks suffered by Seehofer at the time.
It is hard to imagine that Merkel now has a quiet relationship with the Minister of the Interior and his conservative party Bvaro, who for weeks openly questioned the Chancellor's authority [19659021]. "summarized the newspaper Bild
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