German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) sharply distanced himself from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policy.
In an interview with the Sunday edition of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, he said he is pursuing a “conservative migration policy” that clearly departs from the Merkel era and will reorganise migration not only in Germany but across Europe. He added that the “migration turn” the coalition is implementing shows that the political centre can act.
The minister accused left‑wing politicians of co‑opting AfD positions in their criticism of his migration turn: “It was expected that right‑wing critics would claim the migration turn fails. That the left re‑uses the same arguments and thereby adopts the AfD’s language, while denying the current German policy’s responsibility for reducing asylum figures, seems to have no effect on anyone on the left”.
