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2025-02-25 Europe
Following the elections in Germany, the Bundestag will face a 'Bandera coalition'
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Posted by badanov 2025-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top

#1 So, who will be responsible for maintaining Bandera's grave in Munich?
Posted by DooDahMan 2025-02-25 02:31||   2025-02-25 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 "which some sarcastic German political scientists have already managed to dub “Bandera-style"

Too bad he couldn't name "some" of those "political scientists". They just don't exist (at least mnot in Germany, maybe in Moscow) and not even one in thousand Germans would understand the "sarcasm".

Wagenknecht lost because she tried to parrot the AfD, with not much of a leftist twist. But had she passed the threshold of 5%, Mr Spitzen would have to face a coalition including the Greens, who are way more hawkish than the SPD when it comes to Ukraine. All Banderistas, of course, but no flag joke possible.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-25 05:57||   2025-02-25 05:57|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-25 06:03||   2025-02-25 06:03|| Front Page Top

#4 "Border closures" and "border controls" are two different things.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-25 06:15||   2025-02-25 06:15|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Yea, sure.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-25 06:17||   2025-02-25 06:17|| Front Page Top

#6 The GDR had closed borders.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-25 06:31||   2025-02-25 06:31|| Front Page Top

#7 ^To keep their own people in, not third world looters out - there is a difference.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-25 07:04||   2025-02-25 07:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Just an ideological, not a technological difference.

Germany is in the middle of Europe (and the European market). If you wanted to stop and search every truck that enters Germany, economy would come to a screeching halt. Staff and installations aren't there either, right now.

While border control must be improved, it will not solve the problem, at least not in the near future.

What we need are disincentive measures. Denmark has been very successful with these. Bed, bread and soap in the middle of nowhere. The SPD will throw public hissy fits, but once the numbers are dropping sharply, the AfD will lose its major talking points. And they have nothing else to offer.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-25 07:21||   2025-02-25 07:21|| Front Page Top

#9  but once the numbers are dropping sharply, the AfD will lose its major talking points.

Precisely. The promises need to be kept. Mourning after the next attack is not enough.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-25 07:45||   2025-02-25 07:45|| Front Page Top

#10 "Faktisch bedeutet das eine Grenzschließung für illegale Migration."
“In effect, this means closing the border to illegal migration.”

Markus Söder, 20230123

Söder is the state premier of Bavaria and chairman of the CSU, one the the 'Union' parties.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-02-25 08:51||   2025-02-25 08:51|| Front Page Top

#11 You did notice the qualifier?
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-25 09:03||   2025-02-25 09:03|| Front Page Top

#12 @11
I looked at the remarks again.

Which qualifier doe you mean?

Söder actually made an even stronger statement, he said that "Zero tolerance and zero compromise" in "future migration policy" is the consensus betweent Merz and him. ("Null Toleranz und Null Kompromiss" ist die "Leitlinie für künftige Migrationspolitik."@0:03:00)
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-02-25 09:28||   2025-02-25 09:28|| Front Page Top

#13 closing the border to illegal migration
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-25 09:41||   2025-02-25 09:41|| Front Page Top

#14 ^^^But they have no real interest in stopping illegal migration. No more interest in that than "closing the borders" or anything else the promised.
Posted by Crusader 2025-02-25 11:18||   2025-02-25 11:18|| Front Page Top

#15 And why would we have no interest in stopping illegal migration? Do tell!
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-25 11:40||   2025-02-25 11:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Bed, bread and soap in the middle of nowhere.

How about no bed, no bread and no soup at all? No welfare. No health care. No nothing. That way they'll self-deport.

Don't you get tired of supporting the freeloaders?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-02-25 16:30||   2025-02-25 16:30|| Front Page Top

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