In a surprise move, Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has announced that “Berlin has struck a bilateral deal Italy on migration that it will sign in the coming days.”
Italy is against mass migration, while Angela Merkel has become infamous for her promotion of wide open immigration policies. Merkel was, in fact, planning to bring in 300,000 people annually for the next 40 years, populating her country with 12,000,000 migrants. But that was before she faced opposition from mass protests in Germany, as well as a strong anti-migrant presence in her coalition government.
Last week, Seehofer came out in support of a “mourning march” for victims of “killer migrants” in Germany, stating that he, too, would have taken to the streets in protest if he did not hold the position as minister. Seehofer also said that “the migration issue is the mother of all political problems in this country.”
Also, days ago, EU president Jean-Claude Juncker made an unusual about-face, changing his tune about open-door immigration. He threw his backing behind plans for a 10,000-strong armed border fence.
“Seehofer: Germany will sign migration deal with Italy,” by Judith Mischke, Politico, September 13, 2018:
Berlin has struck a bilateral deal with Italy on migration that it will sign in the coming days, Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Thursday.
The agreement follows two similar deals Germany struck with Spain and Greece earlier this summer, as part of a compromise between Angela Merkel’s CDU and her Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), whose demands for tougher migration policies threatened the stability of the coalition government.
Speaking in the German parliament, Seehofer did not go into the specifics of the deal, saying the agreement had not yet been signed by him or his Italian counterpart, Matteo Salvini, and would take several more days to finalize….