Nancy Faeser is the first woman to head the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

But for the way in which she wants to run the office, according to her, it does not play a major role, but rather, as she recently told the magazine “Der Spiegel”, “that I am a Social Democrat and not a Christian Democrat”.

After their first announcements - and there has not been much more in the short time since taking office - one can get the impression that Faeser is building on the work of her predecessor Horst Seehofer in many points.

In any case, there can be no question of a break with the CSU politician.

Helene Bubrowski

Political correspondent in Berlin.

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In an interview with “Spiegel”, Faeser described security as a “question of social justice”.

Security must be guaranteed for everyone, no matter how much money they have or where they come from, that is the top priority.

Seehofer thought very similarly, he was a social politician at heart.

With Faeser the words sound like a social democratic creed.

What will follow from this is still unclear.

In her first short speech as interior minister-designate, she said that right-wing extremism is currently the greatest threat to the free democratic basic order.

That coincides with the assessment of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Seehofer had also declared war on right-wing extremists on various occasions.

A legislative package against right-wing extremism and hate crime only came into force in the spring.

What other measures does Faeser want to take?

Continuity even in migration policy

“First and foremost,” she said in the “Spiegel” interview, Faeser wants to push ahead with the Democracy Promotion Act in order to strengthen civil society groups in the fight against hatred, violence and extremism. The law is not their idea, however, the strengthening of programs to promote democracy was already part of the coalition agreement of the previous government. In May the cabinet had decided on the key points of the draft law, it failed because of the blockade of the Union faction in the Bundestag. The fact that the law is now going through with the voices of the traffic light should be more of a formality than a particular show of strength.

Even in migration policy, the course does not seem to have been set completely new. The name Seehofer - at least at the beginning of his time in the Federal Ministry of the Interior - stood for a hard line; Remember the “Master Plan Migration” and unsuccessful jokes like the 69 Afghans who were deported on his 69th birthday. Faeser would not do something like that, but she makes it very clear on her first days in office that migration policy for her is not the same as spreading one's arms. However, she announced that she “no longer only” wanted to look at migration from a security perspective.

This could mean that integration and labor migration will play a greater role in the future than before;

it fits in with the fact that the traffic light coalition wants to facilitate the change from the asylum to the immigration system.

In view of the dramatic situation on the Polish-Belarusian border, however, she was adamant.

One has to act in concert with Europe - which, in view of the clear resistance in some countries, means that the migrants are not brought into the EU.