Armin Laschet, the leader of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and her potential successor as chancellor, has insisted his party’s “firewall” against the far right will remain intact, as the CDU braces itself for a strong performance by the nationalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Sunday’s state elections in Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD, which first entered the German parliament in 2017, is stagnant on about 11% of the vote in polls.
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26 May 2021
Two members of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have called for Spain and Italy to build more migrant reception centres as the number of arrivals continue to increase.
CDU interior spokeswoman Mathias Middelberg and MEP Lena Düpont wrote a letter stating that there has been little progress in a possible European Union asylum system due to differences between member states.
The pair noted the recent increase in migrant arrivals in Spain and Italy and advocated for more reception facilities, with Middelberg stating that he would like to see rapid processing of migrants not eligible for asylum along with “immediate repatriation”, and economic programmes to migrants’ countries of origin, Spanish news agency Europa Press reports.
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