(ANSAmed) – BERLIN – Germany should “seriously think about” stopping Italy’s alleged breaches of the Schengen accords by new border checks on migrants, Bavarian Governor Horst Seehofer told German daily Bild Monday. “Unless the situation changes,” the minister-president and CSU party chief said, “Germany will have to seriously weigh the possibility of stopping infractions via border controls.

The CSU is the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU. ”One of the issues that concerns us most at the moment is that of refugees,” said Seehofer, one of the politicians with the most clout in the broad coalition governing Germany, even though it does not directly occupy a ministerial post at the federal level.

”Refugees arriving by train in Baveria come mostly via Austria from Italy,” said the governor, noting that EU rules require asylum seekers to register and make their requests in the first EU nation they enter. In the eyes of the Christian Socialist politician, ”we must set quotas for refugees in Europe. And we have to deal with the fact that refugees need to be shared out among EU members fairly.” Bavaria last month accused Italy of blatantly waiving EU migrant rules. Rome is deliberately ignoring standard refugee procedures such as finger-printing in order to let them seek asylum in other countries, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Hermann said on August 22. Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano is “barefaced” in complaining about high refugee arrivals to Italy while at the same time allegedly not respecting EU norms on them, Herrmann said.(ANSAmed).