In recent days there has been "a certain agitation” regarding Germany's asylum policy, but it is not enough, as the large number of asylum seekers is already a threat to national security, said the leader of the conservative opposition in the German parliament, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
Friedrich Merz, head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), wrote in his weekly newsletter to party supporters that the media group "Funke" published today, the following: "There are too many refugees coming to Germany who actually have to apply for asylum in other countries."
The measures announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the center-left Social Democratic Party (GSDP) and his coalition partners the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (SVDP) will not change this because, according to Mertz, they "again do not deal with the real problem“.
The CDU leader has called for a "state of national emergency" to repeal European Union migration legislation and speed up deportations. He stated that the country has already reached its limit and asylum seekers are now a threat to national security and public order.
EU law "provides a general clause that allows the national legislature to take its own measures to maintain public order and protect internal security”, Mertz said, adding: "We have reached that point”.
His assessment comes a week after three people were killed in a knife attack and eight others were injured during celebrations for the 650th anniversary of the founding of the city of Solingen; The prime suspect is a Syrian national believed to have evaded a deportation order.