Angela Merkel directly about the migration policy of Friedrich Merz. “It will lead to the fall of Europe”
– We need to focus on protecting external boundaries [UE]everything else will ultimately cost us – if it becomes permanent – the freedom to move in the European Union – said Merkel about the new border policy of Merza, which assumes the turning of migrants at the German borders.
The former chancellor was in favor of looking for solutions at European level. – Otherwise We can be witnessing the ruin of Europeand I do not want it and I hope that the new federal government does not want it either – she added.
On the eve of early elections in Germany, February 23, Merz promised that “on the first day” after taking office he would fight migration. Less than 24 hours after sworn in, the Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt announced a tightening of border controls that will cause more migrants, including asylum seekers, will not be allowed into Germany.
Lawyers, leftist opposition parties in Germany and the neighbors of this country say that the new politics violates European law.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 22, 2025
“I don't believe that we can fight illegal migration on the German-Austrian or German-Polish border,” said Merkel. “I have always been in favor of European solutions,” she added.
Tense relationships
Merkel has been publicly criticized once this year, despite the fact that they are both members of the Centroprain Christian-Democratic Union (CDU). Three weeks before the election, she condemned the decision of Merz to push in the Bundestag an application for migration policy with the support of the far -right alternative to Germany (AFD).
In turn, the current Chancellor often criticized Merkel for admission in 2015 hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees to Germany.
Their relationships have long been tense. Merz withdrew from the CDU in the early 2000 after losing the struggle for power with a more center Merkel. Then he spent ten years in the private sector and returned to politics only after Merkel's resignation from the position of the CDU chairman in 2018.
