"Kloster Banz Luftbild" by Presse03 - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons.“We should only be pleased to see so many people wanting to come to Germany: it validates what a great country it is,” commented Detlef Esslinger in Munich’s Süddeutsche Zeitung. A well-meaning remark, in line with prime minister Angel Merkel’s welcoming attitude of late (though she wasn’t always like this).
Many in Bavaria do share his views. The right-wing Christian Social Union (CSU) partly do, but mostly don’t. Party leader Horst Seehofer definitely doesn’t: he surely agrees on the latter bit – the greatness of Germany – but when it comes to immigrants, he’d rather kick them all out.
