Germany’s tough and stern ‘chancellor-in-waiting’ vows to end Germany’s migrant crime nightmare
The Telegraph“This country needs to be able to live in freedom and security once again,” Mr Merz thundered after the Solingen attack, which killed three people, vowing to end Germany’s migrant crime “nightmare”. The CDU leader has demanded that Germany transforms its border security policy: rather than just carry out extra checks, he says, it should be turning away illegal migrants on a “comprehensive scale”. It is a remarkable shift in tone for a leader of the CDU, the centre-Right party formerly led by Angela Merkel, who threw open Germany’s borders amid the 2016 refugee crisis with the slogan “wir schaffen das”. But when Mrs Merkel stepped down in 2018, he swept back into the CDU as leader and pushed the party in a decidedly more populist direction, having coined the phrase “Leitkultur” in Germany.
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