Wüst: Migration pressure cannot simply be managed away

2024-03-06T08:15:31.003Z

Highlights: Wüst: Migration pressure cannot simply be managed away. NRW Prime Minister Wüst is dissatisfied. He wants to find out on Wednesday how the federal government is working on the issues so that the goal of limiting migration can be achieved. Around 329,000 people made an initial application for asylum last year - around 50 percent more than in 2022. In January alone, 28,000 asylum seekers applied for asylum in Germany in January alone. The heads of government of the federal states want to talk to Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday about where they still see a need for action.

As of: March 6, 2024, 9:01 a.m

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Hendrik Wüst (l, CDU), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, speaks.

In November, after a tough struggle, the federal and state governments agreed on a migration compromise.

Now there is a new meeting with Chancellor Scholz.

NRW Prime Minister Wüst is dissatisfied.

Berlin - North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) called for faster measures before the federal-state meeting on migration policy to prevent the arrival of asylum seekers with little prospect of staying in Germany.

“The pressure remains incredibly high,” said Wüst on ZDF’s “Morgenmagazin” on Wednesday.

“This is global migration pressure and we cannot manage it here.” That is why the federal government must implement the federal and state agreements from November.

However, much of this was not implemented, said the CDU politician.

That's why he wanted to find out on Wednesday how the federal government is working on the issues so that the goal of limiting migration can be achieved.

The heads of government of the federal states want to talk to Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on Wednesday about where they still see a need for action in asylum policy.

Municipalities warned that they were at their limits when it came to accommodating asylum seekers.

In Germany, around 329,000 people made an initial application for asylum last year - around 50 percent more than in 2022. Wüst said that 28,000 people applied for asylum in Germany in January alone.

In view of the limit of the number of refugees to 50,000 to 60,000 refugees per year proposed by Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Wüst was skeptical.

This is “a number that is realistic and where integration work can also be carried out,” he emphasized.

However, it will not work that the refugees in excess of this number are no longer allowed to come.

A limitation will only work if all measures at European and national level as well as short-term and long-term ways are implemented to reduce the number of refugees with little right to stay.

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Source: merkur

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Wüst: Migration pressure cannot simply be managed away

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