Alexander
Gauland
Immigration
AfD
Kompakt, September 4, 2019
[Alexander Gauland is a national
chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland as well as a chairman of the AfD
delegation in the German Bundestag.]
The
Greek government sends out a fatal signal by now bringing the migrants also to
the mainland. It indicates to all those desiring to migrate that it again
evidently pays to set out on the way with the goal of northwest Europe – particularly Germany. It now becomes evident that the much affirmed EU-Turkey
deal was from the beginning a flawed construction and a pure dud of the Merkel
government. After billions of tax money have been poured out to Turkey, now come
the temporarily returned migrants once again to Europe.
Instead
of relying on unsecured deals, the EU requires finally an authentic defense of
the border in the Mediterranean as per the Australian model. Boats with
migrants before entering European waters must be stopped and led back to the
port of departure. That pertains to the Aegean as well as to the Mediterranean
route from Libya to Italy. As long as the EU continues to renounce the defense of
the external borders, so must the German policy urgently take heed of the security
of the German border.
[Translated
by Todd Martin]
