Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (l-r, SPD), Wolfgang Schmidt (SPD), Head of the Federal Chancellery, and Bernd Krösser, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, talk at the beginning of the federal-state summit at the Federal Chancellery. © Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) sees the postponed fundamental decision on permanently higher federal funds for refugee costs as an open process. "We have a discussion ahead of us that is worth every effort, I want to say that explicitly. But solving the task is not easy either, because a lot has happened in recent years," Scholz said on Wednesday evening after the consultations in the Chancellery.
Berlin - "We are going in there as an open process and no one can predict the outcome."
At the refugee summit, the federal and state governments had agreed that the federal government would initially increase the refugee lump sum to the states by one billion euros for 2023. The fundamental decision on permanently higher federal funds for the was postponed to a meeting next November. Dpa
