The highest district administrator wants compulsory work for all refugees – criticism from the Greens. Compulsory work for refugees is a “signal,” said the head of the district council, Reinhard Sager.

Experts see the basic problem as the fact that the majority of asylum seekers are not allowed to work, and demanding that they be required to work sends the wrong signal. Lord God "serves the false narrative about the work-shy refugees," said Thuringia's Integration Minister Doreen Denstädt.