At “Maischberger”, Hendrik Wüst calls for more pressure on European neighbors to contain migration. The entrepreneur Carsten Maschmeyer warns of Elon Musk.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) urges a turn in migration policy. He did not want border closures, but border controls, he said on Tuesday evening at “Maischberger”.
Asked for deportations or rejections at the border, Wüst said that pressure had to be put on this in order to seriously discuss this in Europe. “What happens about the borders until then?” Maischberger wanted to know. “People then stay in the country in which they were already sure,” replied Wüst.
- Hendrik Wüst (CDU), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Boris Bondarewformer Russian diplomat
- Carsten MaschmeyerEntrepreneur
- Petra GersterModerator
- FRiedrich KüppersbuschJournalist
- Angelika HellemannJournalist (“Bild” newspaper)
Whether this means that neighboring European countries should prevent migrants preventing from departure from departure to Germany until an agreement. After his government consultations, Wüst emphasized with the Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in Düsseldorf that it was agreed that it could not go on. For many countries it is comfortable to simply wave through migrants to Germany.
With a view of the migration, Wüst also called on the SPD to consider the will at its base and to agree with the Union. “I have not lost hope,” said Wüst, who ruled in North Rhine -Westphalia with the Greens. The positions are not incompatible. “It is also not as if there are two trains on each other when Social Democrats and Christian Democrats meet,” said Wüst at “Maischberger”.
Wüst, who is repeatedly portrayed as a party -internal opponent of Friedrich Merz, made no secret of his disappointment about the Union’s election result. An honest analysis is necessary here. The Prime Minister also commented on the sudden turnaround of his Chancellor candidate in the debt brake similarly.
“The allegation of the broken word is in the room. Friedrich Merz himself stated,” said Wüst. “It is simply the truth: it is a different position than you said before.” However, the attitude of the Trump government to Ukraine and the new balance of power in the Bundestag would have changed the situation so “blatant” that the change of heart could be justified.
In the end, Maischberger Wüst asked whether the Union actually had a women’s problem. Previously, Merz had sharply criticized in her commentary round for a statement from October 2024. At that time he had already rejected a parity in the cabinet – i.e. a line -up of 50 percent of the posts with women -; Among other things, with the indication that Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) was a misconception and women are “no favor”.
“That was pure chauvinism,” said the deputy political chief of the “Bild” newspaper, Angelika Hellemann. Incapable men in the government, see Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU), would be nicely hidden. Otherwise, the question arises: “Should angoracan bins sit in the cabinet?” At “Maischberger” the journalist noticed with the statement that the German society does not endure if people who were protected here “disagree other people”.
Wüst did not specifically deal with the Merz statements on the number of women in the government. However, he emphasized that there is parity in his cabinet and the demand for this is legitimate. With a view to the presumably next Chancellor, Wüst said: “I am sure that he can do it. I don’t know whether it will end.
