Dobrindt has to stay tough now

Whoever underestimates Alexander Dobrindtthat is no longer to be helped. For a long time, the Upper Bavarian, who proudly represents the former constituency of Franz Josef Strauß in the Bundestag, was a kind of backwald, as a Haudrauf, to whom no pointed formulation is too hard than one who beats and splits.

What many have overlooked until the end is Dobrindt’s strategic skill. In recent years, he has not been so secretly a kind of irreplaceable hinge between the CSU boss, which was initially anything but well-known. Markus Söder in Munich and the current Chancellor in Berlin, Friedrich Merzworked up.

Dobrindt is preparing to become one of the most popular politicians in the Germans

This Dobrindt, so far more of a shadow man of power, is now preparing to become one of the most popular politicians in the Germans. In the popularity ranking, he recently made a jump into the top 5-an increase of 13 percent compared to 2018 when he showed up in this list for the last time. Dobrindt is the Risingers in the black and red cabinet.

The reason for this is clear: the tightened rules in the control of asylum seekers at the German borders are well received by many citizens. Dobrindt implements a promise with which the Union of AfD In fact, voters can make voters. And even if the numbers of the rejected are by no means as high as one would think of the subordinate mood with which the topic of migration has been partially discussed in recent years, the signals are clear: Angela Merkel’s refugee policy is history.

It is therefore hard to blame Dobrindt when he’s this policy According to the decision of the Berlin Administrative Court does not want to change immediately. The judges had found that also with asylum seekers (in this case a minor woman and two young men from Somalia), who had to enter through a safe third-country country, must first be clarified who was responsible for their asylum procedure as part of the EU laws, an immediate rejection is therefore not legal.

The Interior Minister should set up a border regime that has existed beyond the next court ruling

It is not crucial that this is initially an individual decision, as Dobrindt (and Chancellor Friedrich Merz) emphasize (and Chancellor Friedrich Merz). Because the court is aimed at the weak point that lawyers have always named when it comes to simply rejecting asylum seekers – the possible violation of European law and the problem to what extent its emergency clauses apply to the conditions in Germany. It is the German refugee debate that it is the pronounced question.

However, it is correct if Dobrindt now takes a risk and does not turn it immediately. Since 2015, the citizens have made it clear in almost any election that they do not agree with the previous refugee policy. If a coalition of the middle succeeds in taking these concerns, you cannot appreciate this at all.

Dobrindt should use his new popularity and set up a border regime that has existed beyond the next court ruling. Intensive discussions with the European neighbors are mandatory for this. Because the consequences of the German decision also make them. Of course, for example, no one can say whether rejections on the German-Polish border were the tongue on the scales, which led to the choice of right-wing conservative Karol Nawrocki as the new president. However, they will not have been without any effect.

Dobrindt should see an experience as a warning

The fact that Dobrindt also dominates European business is also a thing that hardly anyone knows. Before the European Court of Justice declared its so-called foreign toll in 2019, as CSU Minister of Transport, it had actually already took the greatest hurdle in Brussels and, in Clinical Negotiations with the EU Commission Jean-Claude Junckers, achieved that she waved his toll plans as the guardian of the contracts.

In the end, however, the deal did not last long. Dobrindt should see this as a warning.