Brief hope in the asylum conflict, then failure: After a good two hours, the negotiators from the CDU/CSU parliamentary group left the Federal Ministry of the Interior. For the time being, there is no agreement on a common approach to asylum policy. There were recriminations on both sides. Both the traffic lights and the CDU/CSU accused each other of making proposals that would either not work quickly or were not legally feasible. The result: For the time being, the traffic light coalition and the CDU/CSU have failed to solve a major problem for society. An obvious side effect: Pressure from the CDU/CSU has brought the notoriously divided coalition back together for the first time in a long time.