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The federal and state governments will meet on Wednesday to discuss asylum and migration policy.
The Union has already made allegations in advance.
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Berlin - Before the top meeting of the federal and state governments on Wednesday (March 6th), North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) called for more decisive and faster measures to limit irregular migration.
“Another year like this on top, with even more people on top, will push us to the limits of what is still possible,” said Wüst on Tuesday on the “Maischberger” show (ARD).
After the large influx of refugees last year, it can be assumed that this will continue this year.
“But our systems are groaning,” said the CDU politician.
“Almost half of the people who come to us have no permanent right to be here.”
When asked whether he thought the upper limit of 60,000 refugees per year proposed by Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) was correct, Wüst said: "I think that is a number that is based on what we process here. “
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A large part of the agreements made at the last federal-state meeting were not implemented or were not implemented with proper effect, said Wüst.
He cited migration and repatriation agreements as an example.
The border protection agency Frontex has also not been strengthened.
The federal government’s law for improved returns is “pretty much cosmetic”.
Wüst had previously accused the traffic light government of “inaction” in reducing migration.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD), on the other hand, sees the federal states as having a responsibility when it comes to asylum policy.
She referred to the approved legislative package with “restrictive regulations for more and faster returns”.
The reform provides the authorities with more options for finding people who have to leave the country and preventing them from going into hiding.
NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU, r.) raises allegations against the asylum policy of the federal government around Olaf Scholz (SPD, left).
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At the meeting on Wednesday, Olaf Scholz and the heads of government of the federal states want to talk about the need for action in asylum policy.
At one such meeting in November, prime ministers wrested a per capita flat rate from the federal government as an additional contribution to the asylum costs.
The German Press Agency
(dpa) estimates that this meeting is unlikely to be that confrontational
.
In Germany, around 329,000 people made an initial application for asylum in 2023.
This is an increase of around 50 percent compared to 2022. However, the more than one million refugees from Ukraine who have come to Germany since the start of the war in February 2022 are not included because they do not have to apply for asylum.
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Days before the summit, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) called for a "real change of direction".
According to his ideas, asylum seekers should only receive full social benefits after five years instead of three, and newly arriving refugees from Ukraine should only receive asylum seeker benefits instead of immediate citizenship benefits.
Söder called for “central federal exit centers at airports” and a clearly defined upper limit for the admission of asylum seekers, which should be based on Germany’s ability to integrate.
Bavaria's Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) also made allegations against the traffic light government.
He wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday: “Uncontrolled immigration must end.
Schengen does not work properly, the majority of migrants into the social systems arrive at the German borders uncontrolled and unregistered.
The federal police would therefore have to consistently reject it.
Traffic light failed.”
Hendrik Wüst campaigned for asylum procedures outside the European Union.
He doesn't believe that the Greens would ultimately have a problem if the procedures were carried out according to the rules of the European Convention on Human Rights and under the auspices of the United Nations.
The CDU politician said that the asylum procedures do not have to take place in Africa, but could also take place along the escape routes.
For example, Italy has made a corresponding agreement with Albania.
(lrg/dpa)