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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has managed to save her government by agreeing to permanently give up her generous migration policy, but this respite may be short-lived
"The climate in a coalition government has probably never been as poisoned as in this one, "commented Bild, the most widely read daily in Germany, after the agreement reached the day before forceps between the Chancellor and her rebel Minister of the Interior, who demanded greatly reduce the number of asylum seekers arriving in the country.
The Conservative leader has been the subject of unprecedented internal challenge by her team.
13 years in power, redouble efforts to restore its authority and consolidate its fragile coalition government, hardly set up in March, between his center-right party CDU, the dr CSU Bavarian State and Social Democrats
SPD Social Democrat President Andrea Nahles hailed the end of hostilities in the German conservative camp, one of the SPD's migration specialists Aziz Bozkurt lambasted migratory restrictions that go "totally in the direction" of the far right
Should the SPD reject this compromise, all Angela Merkel's efforts to save her government would be called into question. A summit meeting of the three coalition parties – CDU, CSU and SPD – is scheduled for Tuesday at 1600 GMT.
Ms. Merkel remains a prime target for the hardest conservative currents, including within her own family
– Merkel haunted by 2015 –
In question, always and again: its decision in 2015 to open Germany to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers.
At the head of the rebels: the president of the CSU, Horst Seehofer, whom the Chancellor hoped to be able to keep under control by appointing him Minister of the Interior.
But this one is worried for his party which risks to lose its absolute majority in regional elections in autumn due to the expected breakthrough of the extreme right.
If this is the case, the hostilities against Angela Merkel, accused of pursuing too centrist a policy, will start again.
On the surface, Merkel has achieved a victory by saving her government and staying in power. The sling launched against her by the Bavarian party CSU also targeted her personally, many media seeing an attempt to "coup" her right wing.
But basically, she had to yield a lot of ground by agreeing to strong restrictions on immigration. The compromise reached with Mr Seehofer on migration policy marks the end of generous migration policy inaugurated in 2015 by the Chancellor.
One of the close relations of the Minister of the Interior, Markus Blume, has also spoken of a "turning point in German asylum policy."
More concretely, asylum seekers arriving in Germany now but already registered in another EU country – that is to say the vast majority of between them – will be placed in "transit centers" on the border with Austria pending their return to the country of entry into Europe.
– 'Internment camps' –
Bernd Riexinger, a leader of the German radical left, spoke of "mbad internment camps", in a reference to Germany's Nazi past.
He asked the Social Democrats of the SPD, third partner of the coalition of Angela Merkel, to refuse. And they still seem to hesitate about the proposed solutions
In principle, migrant removals must be done in agreement with the countries of entry and not unilaterally by Germany. But if agreements can not be found, it is planned to force the migrants back to Austria.
It remains to be seen what Vienna and Rome will think about them.
The Austrian right-wing and conservative government, which has just taken the rotating presidency of the European Union, has already warned that in such a case it would take identical measures at its own borders. With the risk of a domino effect in Europe
"If Germany believes that they can simply send people back to Austria, by flouting international law, we will explain to the Germans that we will not welcome them", warned last week the Austrian Minister of the Interior Herbert Kickl.
AFP
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