German MPs 'drawing up plans' to close borders in challenge to Merkel's refugee policy

The Telegraph ^ | 10/09/2015 | Justin Huggler

[Rusty0604]

German MPs have reportedly drawn up plans to close the country’s borders in a direct challenge to Angela Merkel’s refugee policy.

The move is the latest threat to the Schengen Agreement on border-free travel in continental Europe.

A group of 188 MPs including many from Mrs Merkel’s own Christian Democrat party have prepared laws to fence off sections of the border.

They say they will put them forward if Mrs Merkel does not come up with a solution to the refugee crisis within weeks.

“We must stop the flow of refugees. Considering a border fence should not be a taboo,” Christian von Stetten, the leader of the rebels and a member of Mrs Merkel's party, told Bild newspaper.

The proposals come after Rainer Wendt, the head of the German police union, called for a border fence over the weekend.

Germany has suspended the Schengen Agreement and imposed temporary border controls in an attempt to slow the influx of refugees.

But Mrs Merkel has refused to consider a permanent closure. She has repeatedly spoken out against a similar fence Hungary has built along its southern border to keep refugees out, and compared it to the Berlin Wall.

[jimjohn]

if the MP’s are talking opening about this, they are probably quietly discussing her removal from office, as well they should be.