When it comes to refugees, asylum seekers and migration, the repression skills of German domestic politics work reliably.

Hundreds of district administrators and mayors have to sit in the Chancellery for grievances to be taken seriously by Berlin's political establishment.

Until then, gaffes like "social tourism" serve as a welcome opportunity to push the topic into the right sleazy corner.

Only one party is happy about that.

The fact that things are going wrong again with immigration, including among Ukrainian immigrants, who are not always refugees, has been criticized for weeks by people who are not populists but know what they are talking about.

Now Bavaria's Minister of the Interior has also spoken out.

Willingness to help be exploited?

Because, for understandable reasons, Ukrainians do not have to apply for asylum, but, like recognized asylum seekers, immediately receive basic security, there is a high incentive to come to Germany even without a reason to flee.

In times of war, this can be accepted temporarily, but not in the long term if the host country gets the impression that willingness to help is being exploited.

The second undesirable development is the well-known one: the number of asylum seekers who could have found refuge in safe third countries is increasing rapidly.

So there's a lot to talk about at Nancy Faeser's “refugee summit” next week.

Maybe also why that party just doesn't want to go away.