Challenged to respond firmly to the deadly knife attack that occurred on the night of August 23-24 in Solingen, western Germany, the Scholz government presented on Thursday, August 29, a package of measures designed for an emergency but supported by all the parties in its coalition, whose divisions often fuel the political column.
Time was running out for the chancellor, who was called upon to take credible measures three days before elections of great importance for the country and his government. The regional elections will be held on Sunday 1Ahem September is looking particularly bad for the ruling parties in Berlin in two eastern states. In Thuringia and Saxony, the far right is in the lead with 30 percent of the vote. This is also the case in Brandenburg, where voters will be called to the polls on Sunday, September 22.
It was therefore a team of ministers from the three parties of the tricolour coalition (the social democrats of the SPD, the liberals of the FDP and the ecologists) who presented, on Thursday, measures aimed at “on a large scale” AND “severe”said Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) in the presence of her colleague in the Justice Department, Marco Buschmann (FDP), and State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics, Anja Hajduk (Greens).
“An even stricter realpolitik”
The system is also intended to tighten immigration control, particularly the right to asylum, and the right to arms, issues that have been at the centre of debate following the killings. The attack in Solingen, carried out by a 26-year-old Syrian refugee under a deportation order, left three people dead and several injured. Having entered Germany in 2022, the man was subject to an expulsion order to Bulgaria, the country through which he had entered Europe.
Accused of inaction while similar attacks have devastated the country in recent months, the coalition thus affirms its ability to implement a “an even stricter realpolitik” In terms of migration policy, the Minister of Justice insisted. The measures provide, for example, that refugees whose asylum application depends on another European State – nicknamed “Dublin” refugees – – will be deprived of social benefits in Germany if the country that first welcomed them agrees to take them in. A measure demanded in particular by the liberals in the coalition, who want to reduce “ The magnetism of the German welfare state »According to its leader, Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), quoted by The mirror.
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