Odd title. I had to look “cordon sanitare” up. It seems they think they will get disease from the AfD, and not all the third-worlders they are bringing in.
By having a cordon sanitaire they mean to not negotiate or talk, treat them like pariahs.
This term (cordon sanitaire), I first noticed six weeks ago when some European journalist used it to describe events in Austria.
I’ll say three observations:
1. Covid (while ended now for 2 years)...whacked the ‘hell’ out of most European governments, and you can’t say they’ve fully recovered.
2. The public knows virtually every occasion that the system fails...the obvious answer is we need more EU-resolution/laws...to ultimately fix the cause. It’s like a comedy show when this chatter starts up via public TV.
3. As long as the right-wing stayed down around 5-to-10 percent....most governments grumbled but accepted it. I’d say in most cases...the right-wing element now pulls in a healthy 20-percent. The silly thing is that they don’t have thirty-odd political promises like the center or left parties. It’s usually two or three significant things.
Finally, I’ll just say it...in a private setting without journalists around...I’d say three out of four Europeans are frustrated over taxation, financial affairs, job security, migration, and public safety. But they won’t dare voice those ideas in a public setting.
In this case, I think the referenced political barrier is in place to keep the migrants from being legally expelled and to maintain the influx of new ones.