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Merz after the election win: “Nobody wants to close Germany’s borders”

Migration crisis in Europe

Published 26 February 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Friedrich Merz and other prominent CDU representatives.

As expected, BlackRock executive Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc emerged as the big winner of the election.

Merz, who among other things campaigned on ending mass illegal immigration into the country, is now backing away from previous promises and announcing that his party does not want to close the borders at all.

None of us are talking about border closures. No one. Although this was claimed at times during the election campaign. None of us will close the border, he now promises.

The post-election gambit stands in stark contrast to how the CDU leader expressed himself less than a month ago:

– On the first day of my tenure as chancellor, I will instruct the interior ministry to impose permanent border controls with all our neighbors and refuse all attempts at illegal entry, Merz claimed before the election, promising an “effective entry ban” for people without valid travel documents, including asylum seekers.

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Instead, it is now stated that they “need to protect the borders better” and “regain control over those who come into the country” and Merz hopes EU leaders can reach an agreement together on changes to the common asylum policy.

Cooperation with Alternative for Germany which actually wants to close Germany’s borders to non-European migration is also highly unlikely.

Instead, to push his policies through, Merz wants to hold talks with the election’s big loser the Social Democratic SPD, which, like the CDU, has historically advocated a very generous and comprehensive migration policy.

Friedrich Merz hopes that the CDU and the SPD can agree to “walk a common path” on migration policy.

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