I was asking more about the political impact. From the outside looking in, it feels like it’s just appeasement to the far-right, and it’s not like it would persuade many voters to vote for the traffic light anyway. At this point if they vote for the traffic light and get the far-right policies anyway, why would anyone vote for the traffic light? The far-right voters will still vote for the far-right anyway, and the traffic light voters won’t like (I’m guessing) these policies anyway.
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In general it is not worth appeasing the far right (or far left for that matter) as they will never be happy anyway.
Of course, this supposes that this is to stop irregular migrants (i.e. non-EU nationals without visas) rather than to pick up on potential security risks.
It’s supposed to be random checks isn’t it? It can’t be anything other than political purposes. Not sure how you’ll really stop irregular migrants (apart from a supposed deterrent value), nor security risks with that.
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Yes, all of Germany’s land borders are with countries that are in the Shengen area so they will have already passed border controls before they reach the German border. They either need the border countries to beef up their controls, or to improve the monitoring internally.
I think some of them have been coming via Poland which has been related to a hybrid warfare scheme from Belarus (effectively a Putin puppet state):
Nothing new really, e.g. Denmark has been continuously doing this for 8 years.
It’s largely ‘Symbolpolitik’, sure. But I wouldn’t necessarily pin this on Scholz, don’t think he has much of a choice here tbh. The pressure isn’t just coming from the ‘far-right’, but from the CDU and FDP and even parts of the SPD’s own base as well (and whatever the BSW is politically).
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I noticed that the fucking Nazis are having ago at the Bauhaus movement again:
The AfD must have adapted their whole philosophy from the “What would Jesus do?” concept: Was würde Hitler tun?
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Wankers
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Well, given what many of them are like, maybe if they wanked once in a while they wouldn’t be such Nazis.
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The lyrics to this never get old
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Klassiker 
Just been reading up on the government situation. For non-German based Reds, there is a reasonable explainer on DE:
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I’m wondering if Scholz would stay on as Kanzlerkandidat for the SPD if there is an election. He fills me with absolutely no confidence. He even manages to make things that he has coped well with look like a disaster.
I don’t think he should have ever had anything to do with the FDP. They have acted the whole time like a party of opposition. I couldn’t even tell you what they are for, aside from having no speed limit on the Autobahn.
Would Boris Pistorius do any better electorally for the SPD?
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Surely his time in jail would be a disadvantage.
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Fixed it! I cut and pasted to get his surname right. Should have checked the rest of the line.
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Two remarks :
The address Scholz gave yesterday evening was the best and liveliest speech I ever heard from him and social democrats must have been desperate : why didn’t you perform like this earlier ?
Being no friend of the Ampel I nonetheless dread new elections at the present time, considering that we have two parties on the rise ( AFD and BSW ) that I find totally unacceptable and a serious threat to our country.
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https://x.com/ZDFheute/status/1854429950717173949
Wissing resigns from FDP and remains Minister of Transport, I didn’t have that on my bingo card
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German politics has suddenly become interesting. That’s not how it’s supposed to be.
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Is UK going to be the last big bastion for liberal political groups ?
France has gone , Canada mostly gone , as has Germany.
This is going to fuck UK up really bad especially with respect to Ukraine.
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Germany has not gone.
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