Former German Minister Suggests EU Use Force To Control External Border
As government grapples with stricter deportation rules, Angela Merkel’s former health minister says influx of migrants needs to be stopped.
As government grapples with stricter deportation rules, Angela Merkel’s former health minister says influx of migrants needs to be stopped.
Since leaving high office and staying largely out of the limelight, Merkel has averaged €3,000 in cosmetic expenses per month.
Arnold Vaatz, similarly to his colleague Hans-George Maassen, contends the Union parties have “developed into followers who now ape what the Greens, the left-wing parties, and the media they control think up in terms of such rules.”
For the first time in many decades, German politicians must learn to think, rather than feel— and to assert Germany’s vital national interests.
Both Prime Minister of Hungary Victor Orbán and former Czech President Václav Klaus expressed appreciation for the sixteen years Merkel gave as German chancellor and a key leader in the European Union.
Angela Merkel did put in place a mechanism to strengthen German government finances. However, there was a price to be paid for this achievement, namely a slowly but steadily rising burden on German taxpayers.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán reflected on what a post-Merkel Germany would mean for his country. “The era of ambiguity, stealth politics and drifting has ended with Merkel. We now prepare for battle with our eyes wide open.”
European Union Commission chief Ursula von der Leyden’s said on Wednesday that it was time to “think about mandatory vaccination.” In her personal opinion, “it is understandable and appropriate to lead this discussion now.”
Having managed the country with the sole aim of keeping her ‘clientelist’ system in power for as long as possible, Angela Merkel is disappearing from the political scene—just as the first cracks in the German ‘ship of state’ are beginning to show.
A brief round-up of some of the ‘big names’ that are set to head up Germany’s powerful ministries under the new ‘Ampel-Koalition’ formed by the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP.
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