It appears that it was the kicking his party received in the Saxony and Thuringia local elections and the worries of the VW CEO, not the Solingen stabbings, that have finally stirred German Chanceller Scholtz from his slumber.
Now, like Michel "Brexit" Barnier in France, Scholtz is starting to implement solutions to resolve the concerns from 'people from below' i.e. German voters - the 'undesirables' that exist even in the undemocratic EU.
So suddenly it is FAB...all systems go...
- Internal border checks
- Investigating Rwanda as a processing destination for migrants
- Ukraine peace talks involving Russia
Soon he will be admitting Germany has an energy crisis and that young people are voting AFD while calling for an investigation into the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines.
Hopefully Sweden will also wake up - although it's probably all too late for them as Politico reported:
Reversing a rise of gang violence involving children in Sweden will take at least a decade, the Nordic nation’s justice minister said Tuesday.
“The problems are certainly very serious, and it will take time to persistently reverse the trend, not the least regarding children,” Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer told the Financial Times
The country has been rocked by a wave of gang violence in recent years, with its gun crime rate now among the highest in the EU. Sixty-two people were shot dead in 2022, a record figure, and 54 in 2023.