Migrants, Seehofer: "I resign" The Merkel government holds its breath

The anxiety of migrants, confused European Council last week and the new Italian hardness are cracking Angela Merkel's Great Coalition and the very foundations of the European Union. Only three months ago, last night, the German government found itself facing the resignation of the Minister of the Interior and at the risk of losing the support of the Bavarian cousins ​​of Csu. Minister Horst Seehofer does not like the results obtained by Ms Merkel in Europe. He wanted an agreement to reject migrants at the borders and, according to the Dublin agreements, to send them back to the countries of first landing. Merkel did not want (or could not) impose it on Italy, from which a large number of illegal residents in Germany arrive. The results of the European Council are not at all equivalent to our proposals for rejection at the border, it was the incriminating response of the minister to his chancellor. The fracture was consumed. In a dramatic speech, Seehofer spoke until late in the evening to the comrades of the party's "coherence," "no results," then appealed to the emotivity: I can not badume responsibility for the death from Susanna. He was talking about a 14-year-old boy who had been raped and killed by an Iraqi refugee who had committed the German crime.

Serious situation

The serious situation admitted Merkel. The Chancellor can now hope that the CSU will abandon its leader Seehofer by continuing to support him at the national level. Otherwise, he could turn left by boarding the Greens in the executive or go early. The Chancellor has paid dearly for his latest policies on migration policy and the defense of European cohesion. In October, Seehofer was supposed to face the regional elections and fears the worst. According to polls, the far right of the AfD, Alternative for Germany, is violating its electorate especially with the slogan of the migrants. If the majority of Csu decides to stay in the Berlin alliance, it is also because Angela Merkel remains in Bavaria the most popular leader of all the others.

The Master Plan

For months, the Minister of the Interior was working on a master plan to change the national migration policy. Extremely accelerated examination of applications, mbadive repatriations and, in Article 27, automatic rejections on the borders of migrants already registered in other EU countries. Basically all the weight of the migratory flow on the South Front countries: Spain, Italy and Greece. Cos Merkel goes with the 16 European leaders to find at least bilateral agreements. Socialist Spain's Pedro Sanchez and ex-Greek rebel Alexis Tsipras agreed to take back migrants registered in their ports and then arrived in Germany. Italy's Pentaleghist government said no. Others, which the Chancellor cited as available, have denied with very few diplomatic statements, symptom of weakened relationships. I am Prague, Budapest and Warsaw.

No agreement with Rome

An agreement with Rome was not possible – Merkel explained yesterday on television -. Italy wants to first get a reduction of migrants arriving on its shores and feels like it has long been abandoned to itself. Merkel tries to avoid unilateral acts that are done to the detriment of third countries. He fears a domino effect with Austria, Italy and the Visegrd group that is closing the borders to avoid migrants rejected by Berlin. This would be the end of free movement in the EU, the return of internal borders, lost GDP points for everyone. Between Merkel and Seehofer, not only is the Berlin government at stake.