By Peter Tiede
This speech goes around the world – Robert Habeck had his speech on the hatred of Jews and Israel on our streets translated into three languages. The Vice Chancellor’s clear message: Anyone who spreads hatred of Jews, celebrates murder and manslaughter and wishes Israel dead cannot stay with us.
► “Anyone who is not German risks losing their residence status.” Anyone who does not yet have a residence permit even provides a reason to be deported.
Only: What specifically follows for the federal government from the clear words of its Vice Chancellor?
BILD asked. The answer is sobering: NOTHING. Nobody has any intention of changing anything.
At the federal press conference, Habeck’s spokeswoman initially fussed:
► The minister has “repeatedly recorded videos on various topics that are important to him”.
► The video shows “the minister’s opinion, which stands for itself.”
► She “cannot contribute any more to it, other than to say that it is the minister’s opinion”.
The objection that the words of government politicians usually have to be followed by actions and what they are, what plans are there on the part of the federal government so that these people actually lose their residence permit – NOTHING comes up for a very long time.
Ten seconds of just silence!
From all speakers from all ministries in the federal press conference. Also from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesman. Clear sign: Habeck’s ministry should explain what the boss meant.
After the seconds of silence, the spokeswoman for Habeck’s Ministry of Economics speaks again:
► “We are not responsible for this topic, but…”
► It is a “video message from the minister about a topic that is generally important to him…”
Hammer sentence from the spokeswoman for Habeck’s ministry
► “He wasn’t interested in making requests or anything like that or in having specific government action as a result…” the speaker then says!
Is called: Nobody has the intention of taking concrete steps to ensure that what Habeck feels becomes reality. The minister talked about it ON TIMES.
MEANS: The speech was great, important – and already planned without consequences.
The Federal Ministry of the Interior even clearly differentiated itself: Answers to the question about specific changes, for example to the right of residence, are “difficult to answer if the starting point is now the Vice Chancellor’s statements”. She “didn’t want to make any connection to this,” said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser’s (53, SPD) spokeswoman.
Chancellor spokesman Steffen Hebestreit (51) noted at the end that the Federal Minister of Justice had explained several times that there were regulations in the right of residence that could be used – in individual cases. It’s more about enforcing these existing regulations.
No changes are planned.