Union presents Europe program : We do not want the distribution of Union

CSU leader Markus Söder in the first common European election programme of the Union parties is an important Signal for the new unit of the CSU and CDU, after their year-long dispute over immigration policy. "The most important message today is that you can imagine, five years ago, such an event in the harmony, in the internal composition would not have," said Söder on the Monday before a joint meeting of the tips of the CDU and the CSU in Berlin. At the Meeting, the first joint programme for the European elections on may 26. May be adopted.

The common EPP candidate, Manfred Weber of the CSU, the link between the Union parties, Söder said. Also, the development of the CDU "allows there's actually a new joint, We are," he said with a look at the new CDU leader, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. In a number of important issues, such as the internal security man was back in a community track. Also in the policy on Europe was "in broad agreement". Therefore, the choice program was "a piece of the new beginning for the community cooperation of the CDU and the CSU".

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On the question of who had been on the wrong path, the CSU or the CDU, said Söder: "Europe was in a different Phase of five years ago. What we have today, the challenges, was not five years ago.“ It had been gemäkelt in Europe a lot, because it "only went to the European under-wood. And now you realize: It's about Europe as a Whole.“ Therefore, it is important that the Union set a Signal for stability in Europe.

To SPD demands for more European social policy, said Söder: "We want a stability Union, but we do not want any distribution Union." It could not be, "is that a quasi-out of Germany alone, Europe will be financed. Since it takes a reasonable Basis, and Balance.“ Not every proposal in Paris should be automatically applied. There is a lot of work to keep Europe together and to build "more bridges, than the axis between Paris and Berlin".

Leading CDU politicians also rejected criticism of the coalition partner SPD, the Union and go with their European election programme to the French President, Emmanuel Macron. The Deputy CDU leader Julia Klöckner said: "The proposals of Mr Macron is important, but not worth more than the proposals of other heads of state and government."

More cooperation in foreign policy

The North Rhine-Westphalian Minister-President and CDU's Deputy Armin Laschet, as well as the chief of the Union faction in the Bundestag, Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU), made in the face of criticism from Paris and London of the German arms export ban to Saudi Arabia for a coordinated common policy with France and the UK in this area.

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Laschet said the claim by the SPD Leader, Andrea Nahles, to extend the Export ban to Saudi Arabia for at least six months, he heard of the SPD, and always, there was a need for more European cooperation in foreign policy. "If you really wanted to, you have to also seek a common Foreign, security, defence and arms export policy. You should not think "only of English". (dpa)