(Germany) CDU parliamentarians' 'secret plan' to build fences at Germany's border

[unhappycamper]

http://www.dw.com/en/cdu-parliamentarians-secret-plan-to-build-fences-at-germanys-border/a-18791779

A group of MPs in Angela Merkel's own party is drawing up a plan proposing fences at the German border, according to a newspaper report. The hardcore rhetoric adds more pressure to the chancellor's refugee dilemma.

CDU parliamentarians' 'secret plan' to build fences at Germany's border
Ben Knight
19.10.2015

The threats from the right wing of Angela Merkel's party are growing louder - and its demands simpler. Now a large influential faction of MPs in her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is reportedly drawing up a new set of measures to stem the flow of refugees into Germany - most notably, they did not rule out building border fences.

According to a report in Monday's "Bild" newspaper, the initiative comes from the "parliamentary circle for mid-sized companies" (PKM), a faction of center-right Bundestag members that claims to represent the interests of small and mid-sized German businesses. It comprises some 188 members of the 311 CDU/CSU parliamentarians currently in the Bundestag.

"We have to stop the stream of refugees," PKM chairman Christian Freiherr von Stetten told "Bild." "Thinking about border fortification should not be taboo." The package would also include measures to shut out at the border anyone that come from nations that Germany deems "safe countries of origin" - which normally means the Western Balkans.

Hidden threat

The MPs "secret plan," as the tabloid dubbed the leak, also came with a veiled threat to the chancellor that sounded almost like political blackmail. Von Stetten told the paper that he was convinced that the German government had an "effective plan" to stop uncontrolled stream of refugees to Germany, but "should it become clear in the next week that this assumption was wrong, our parliamentary faction must react."

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Whenever I hear "secret plan" I think of Tricky Dick and Henry the K's 'Peace With Honor' bullshit.