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Karl Kopp, European Union expert at Pro Asyl, a German human rights organization for refugees, criticized Germany's move (snip) It is a major affront when a ‘grand European' like Fischer fights for reintroducing the national veto,“ Kopp said.
Maybe, just maybe, the light is beginning to dawn on them, why shouldn't a sovereign nation have veto power over immigration to its country ....

[Michael81Dus]

NOT MAYBE. Fischer knows that immigration policy is a very important issue in Germany. The opposition parties have a majority in the Federal Council, which has to approve the new "constitution", too. If the sovereignity on immigration would have ended, Schröder could have thrown the paper in the ashtray.