Having clinched a coalition deal with the center-left Social Democrats, German conservative leader Friedrich Merz announced that his new government would “largely put an end to irregular migration.” With the far-right AfD surging in recent elections, Merz knows that immigration is at the top of many voters’ concerns. Merz also announced the strengthening of military service in Germany “on a voluntary basis, following the Swedish model.”
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00:00We're going to start a new course in the migration policy.
00:04We're going to order and order and end the irregular migration.
00:10We're going to take control on the states' borders and we're going to go to Asyls.
00:15We're going to start a back-to-back offensive.
00:18We're going to take the end of the free-to-off program,
00:21to set the family-to-off program,
00:23and to increase the number of safe-to-off countries.
00:27The Bundesrepublik Deutschland must also außenpolitisch
00:30and sicherheitspolitisch besser werden.
00:33We're going to increase the resources for the Verteidigung.
00:36We're going to create a Planungs- and Beschaffungsbeschleunigungsgesetz
00:39for the Bundeswehr.
00:41And we're going to increase further measures,
00:43to increase the Verteidigungsfähigkeit.
00:46I want to point out,
00:48that we're going to strengthen the Swedish model
00:51on the basis of free-to-off program.
00:53We're going to strengthen the Wehrdienst in Germany.
00:55But that is first of all free-to-off program.
00:57We hope that we're going to have enough free-to-off program
00:59to get the Verteidigungsfähigkeit
01:01of the Bundeswehr.
01:03Thank you very much.