The AfD is using the last meeting of the Federal Council this year to submit a proposal on German foreign policy. In it she criticizes the federal government’s US policy and at the same time expressly supports the foreign policy course of the Trump administration. The application follows shortly after one Several AfD MPs travel to the USAwith which the party wanted to demonstrate its transatlantic contacts. However, research by ZEIT shows that the trip did not go as expected AfD claims. Accordingly, she was not flanked by the German embassy, and there were apparently fewer high-level discussions than were publicly portrayed. The delegation trip cost around 100,000 euros in tax money. It is unclear whether the trip reached the stated goals. Why is the AfD seeking proximity to the US government? Christian Fox from the ZEIT investigative department explains in the podcast what the AfD MPs have done in the USA and what consequences the misuse of taxpayer money could have.
The Federal Government want by the end of the year 535 Afghans with confirmation of admission bring from Pakistan to Germany. “We want to complete this as much as possible in December,” said Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU). The federal government is in contact with the Pakistani authorities about this. According to human rights organizations, however, there is a significant wait more people affected to leave the countrythere should be around 1,800. Germany promised protection to particularly vulnerable people after the Taliban came to power four years ago – including former local employees, human rights activists, judges and journalists. Hundreds of them remain in Pakistan to this day. At the same time, the Pakistani government is threatening deportations to Afghanistan. Wolfgang Bauerreporter for the editor-in-chief of ZEIT, explains in the podcast why only some of the promises are being fulfilled and what threatens those left behind.
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