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Refugee Costs: Faeser finds more support strange
“We are experiencing a terrible war in the middle of Europe (…) There can be no upper limits for humanity”:Nancy Faeser. photo
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The municipalities are demanding more money from the federal government for the accommodation of refugees. Interior Minister Faeser refers to billions that have already been paid. She rejects an upper limit for the number of refugees.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser cannot understand the demands of the municipalities for more money from the federal government for the accommodation of refugees and migrants. “I find it strange that it is already being said – at the beginning of April this year – that the money for this year is not enough,” said the SPD politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
“The federal government made a lot of money available last year – 4.4 billion euros. We also took over the social benefits for the refugees from Ukraine.” For this year, the federal government promised the states and municipalities 2.75 billion euros in additional support at an early stage.
Faeser referred to a federal-state summit with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on May 10 to discuss refugee costs.
Faeser: “No maximum limits for humanity”
Faeser admitted that the situation of the municipalities is very difficult. The situation must be dealt with together. She refused to limit the number of refugees. “We are experiencing a terrible war in the middle of Europe. Eight out of ten refugees come from Ukraine. There can be no upper limit for humanity there.”
Harsh criticism came from the opposition. “These statements by the interior minister are simply a denial of reality,” said the domestic policy spokesman for the Union faction, Alexander Throm (CDU), the German Press Agency. The minister is apparently unaffected by the fact that the municipalities are at their breaking point and are doing great things in helping the refugees from Ukraine. The municipalities rightly demanded that the traffic light government do something about the increasing irregular migration. Because that is a task for which the federal government alone is responsible.
A third of the more than one million Ukrainian refugees in Germany are under the age of 18. This is also visible in the crime statistics. “Last year we had over 3,700 suspected children and young people from Ukraine. In 2021, before Putin’s war, there were a few hundred,” said the minister.