AfD Kompakt, January 21, 2021
What Chancellor Angela Merkel evidently understands as a
threat is for many in Germany, yet also in Europe, a glimmer of hope. With control
of its borders, Germany would finally create the prerequisites for more
domestic security in the entire EU.
That with this announcement Merkel seeks to extort from
European neighbor states adherence to her way of fighting the pandemic, at the
same time allows to arise doubt that she is in fact convinced the hard lockdown enforced by her in
Germany is yielding the desired result. Otherwise, she would not need to make
diplomatic threats but could trust that the way driven by her is leading to
success.
Perhaps the pandemic, besides all its horrors, in the end at
least has something useful: The legend, that the German borders were not to be
controlled and that we therefore must let anyone enter who wished to come to
Germany, as since 2015 Merkel ever again told us, is finally off the table. We
will at anytime remind the Chancellor and her successors of that, if it is
necessary.
[trans: tem]
