For the first Meeting of the “German Islam conference” in 2006, served the Union-run Ministry of the interior of the Ham slice. So Pig Meat. No idea if the tempered recklessness or ignorance. I think it is possible that twelve years ago, no one knew in the CDU, a Muslim, or a Muslim, let alone your eating habits. Today it is different.

at one point, Angela Dorothea Merkel, the CDU has seen that you have to open up for minorities. The party leader wanted not only in Russia, German in the Union. And you did it.

For the Younger among us: immigrants in the Union, this was revolutionary! The CDU was always the Anti-foreigners party. Almost every speech from Union politicians made it clear: migrants are a Problem. You don’t belong. The message to people like my parents: we teach in German. And how to eat with a knife and fork.

The Christian democratic Union acted in an immigration country like a bull in a China shop. So, as the CSU today.

But Merkel civilized your party. She taught the CDU manners against the “foreign fellow citizens”. And put new messages: It was not a Chancellor, but Angela Merkel, the Integration of “the boss” said. And it is inviting for over ten years, migrant associations into the Chancellery. 2015 was also the first Chancellor in a ceremony for guest workers to pay tribute to their achievements.

two thousand and fifteen! This was actually to be expected.

What surprised me in all the years of The CDU-wife always hits the right tone. It creates it as the first Chancellor, the citizens with migration fuss in their speeches, not to exclude. Not able to do the vast majority of politicians, including the SPD, Greens and Left.

Merkel, the mother of all solutions

I don’t think Merkel out of charity. For their political decisions have to be ruthless. It is rather to the Bismarck of the integration policy: the carrot and the stick. Under your crass asylum were decided right tightening, naturalisation remained daunting, complicated and anti-discrimination policy is still the Cinderella in the household.

But Merkel is not only pragmatic, she is also a politician with foresight. And the number of voters with an immigrant background is growing. 2017, for the Rivalo first time about ten per cent of all persons entitled to vote Mihigrus . Who wants to remain the people’s party, must, therefore, be sexy for Germans with migration plus.

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The social-Democrats saw the locker. You thought it was, apparently, a law of nature, that migrants choose the SPD. The cunning Merkel thought: I’d Be surprised if you could swindle of the SPD, the conservative Turks, Yugos and Italians. And that’s exactly how it came. Recently, the Union in favor of migrants and their descendants is at the very top, as Recently, a study showed. Particularly their attractiveness has risen at Turkodeutschen – and not just because of “Anjela Märköl”. The mother of all solutions.

Merkel was surprised by the determined. She has been working for years. The peak of their diversity campaign I’m doing four years ago: in 2014, you are invited to an illustrious company in the Konrad Adenauer house. Black people, Roma, Jews, women with a headscarf together with party officials in the control centre of the Christian democracy. Of course there was pork Vienna alder, Tradition is Tradition.

Merkel: the first German Chancellor with a background of migration

the title of The event sound to compromise with the hard-liners: Immigrant – Arrived?! Because it is a unspoken law in the CDU, you must not say, immigrant or immigration , but only immigrant and a country of Immigration . Very important: do not a , to ! Merkel herself, however, is the sausage, she speaks the forbidden words constantly.

In the case of the immigrants Party in the Union headquarters, they told of the hurdles that you had to take, even in the CDU. Some of their party colleagues would not have you, the East German woman believed that she knows the rules.

Once she had read in the newspaper that they had someone as a “zone quail” insults. “One should not let small offences don’t stop,” he advised the migrants and new German, quasi-minority to minority.

Merkel is in fact one of the people, to which the designation “immigrant” fits perfectly. Because while most of the Mihigrus to have more of a migration, the foreground , you can not detect by Merkel. But her father Horst Kazmierczak was, before he allowed his name to Kasner, clear. Later, Merkel took on the surname of her husband.

Shame really. Chancellor Kazmierczak, the first woman, and the Chancellor with a background of migration. Would have liked.