Wolfgang Bosbach’s second ‘Klartext!’ column: Open the borders! Close the borders!

“How is that supposed to work? You can’t close the borders …!” So said the Chancellor in autumn 2015 on the programme “Anne Will” on the topic of a ban on accepting refugees – yes or no? An important note for those particularly sensitive to language: yes, at that time the discussion was about the admission of “refugees”. The replacement of this term (despite it being a legal term) with the word “asylum-seekers” did not occur until later.

Read the full text of the second column here “Open the borders! Close the borders!”