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Berlin (dpa) – The SPD drew a clear red line for negotiations with the CDU and the CSU on the design of a stricter asylum law. "There will be no closed camps with us," party and group leader Andrea Nahles said at the end of a special meeting of SPD deputies.

Transit centers are planned at three border points on the Austrian-German border. From there, asylum seekers already registered in other EU states must be returned to them. For this, however, one must first agree with Austria . It is completely difficult to know how to prevent unattended, that the people concerned do not move. In the SPD, it was said that the Union argued that the camps were at least open to Austria, where the person could always come back.

This Thursday another coalition committee will discuss details with the leaders of the Union and the SPD. The head of the CSU and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had initially threatened to resign, though the rules are not harsher at the selected border crossings in Bavaria, eventually Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed ([19659006] CDU ) the controversial solution of the transit center.

Nahles complained in the Bundestag's budget debate that this was not a question in the coalition agreement. "Since the signing of the coalition agreement on March 12, the refugee issue has not changed," she said. "If you have any other suggestions, you must present them, justify them and vote with the coalition partner." We are now at the beginning of such a voting process.

For the SPD, the following three principles would apply: "No unilateral national action, no rule-of-law procedure should be respected, closed camps that we reject," Nahles said. On this basis, the SPD will continue to negotiate Thursday night. An agreement at the meeting was not clear.

SPD Secretary General Lars Klingbeil also stressed: "Mass camps where refugees will be detained for weeks will not be with the SPD." However, in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin" he was confident that the grand coalition could find a compromise.

First, the Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer ( CSU ) has to negotiate an agreement with Vienna. "If this agreement does not exist with Austria, then all the compromise of the Union is on fragile ground," Klingbeil said. The negotiations would be quite difficult. "Mr. Seehofer has not come out stronger in recent weeks, it's a weakened home minister." After his threat of resignation and because of his relations with Chancellor Angela Merkel and with the CDU Seehofer was "in a very weak bargaining position".

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