10 September, 2017
Speaking at a rally of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party on Friday ahead of the September 24 election, Farage called Schulz, a former European Parliament president, a "pro-EU fanatic" who'd "put the interests of Brussels" first in Brexit negotiations.
He called for the European Union to reach a "truly homogeneous asylum system".
Lindner told German magazine Focus in an interview published Friday that he saw big hurdles to reaching agreement with the Greens on immigration and energy policies, reducing the prospects for a so-called Jamaica coalition of the conservatives, Greens and the FDP.
The right-wing AfD, which has tried to tap into public disquiet over Merkel's 2015 decision to open German borders to more than a million migrants, is expected to win up to 11 percent in the election and enter the federal parliament for the first time.
EU countries, including Germany, say the United Kingdom can't expect the bloc's full trade benefits if it leaves the union and rejects the free movement of goods, services, capital and people. With a fortnight to go until the Sept 24 election, it's now nearly certain the Christian Democrats will prevail. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said this week there's no "free lunch" for Prime Minister Theresa May in Brexit talks with the EU.
He had been invited by AfD deputy leader and European parliamentarian Beatrix von Storch - the granddaughter of Hitler's finance minister, Lutz von Krosigk, and a member of Farage's group in the European parliament. "We should talk less about ideological projects or the ideological aspirations connected with Brexit and more about trade and more about the use it would have for Germany".
