2023-09-30 09:01:06
Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to stop the current trend of increasing migration to Germany with various measures. “The number of refugees seeking to go to Germany is too high at the moment,” said the SPD politician to the Editorial Network Germany (RND). “That is why we have long supported the protection of Europe’s external borders. And we are continuing the additional border security measures with Austria; we have agreed on joint controls on their side with Switzerland and the Czech Republic.”
If an asylum application was rejected, those affected would have to leave Germany again. “We have to make sure of that,” emphasized Scholz. The government in Warsaw, in turn, must ensure that visas are no longer sold and refugees are not “waved through” to Germany. “That’s why we have tightened controls at the border with Poland.”
“A kind of breathing lid”
Taken together, the measures should have an impact on refugee numbers. Scholz: “We hope that this will become noticeable quickly.”
Scholz emphasized that he was aiming for an agreement with the Prime Minister in November on the issue of financing refugee costs in the municipalities. “Even as Federal Finance Minister, I suggested a solution to the states that was based on the actual access figures – a kind of breathing cap.”
A comment from Berthold Kohler Published/Updated: Recommendations: 101 Published/Updated: Thomas Gutschker, Brussels Published/Updated: , Recommendations: 13
The federal states recently demanded such a per capita regulation from the federal government, but in last week’s discussions there was still no agreement, particularly on the amount of federal support.
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