migration
Spahn calls for a restriction on the number of refugees
Jens Spahn is a member of the CDU executive committee. photo
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The EU should take in 300,000 to 500,000 refugees a year. This is what CDU politician Spahn demands. He gets a lot of headwind from the traffic lights. A suspension of human rights “cannot be a solution”.
Spahn had advocated taking in and distributing 300,000 to 500,000 refugees a year in Europe. The people should choose the refugee agency of the United Nations.
Haseloff: The limit has been reached
Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) warned against overburdening the municipalities in view of the high migration figures. “The limit has been reached in the municipalities. Unfortunately, that has not yet fully arrived in Berlin,” he told the “Bild” newspaper. “We’re overdoing ourselves with the integration, also with regard to the absolutely necessary integration into the labor market.”
The CDU/CSU parliamentary group agreed to the demand made by former SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel for a change in migration policy. The First Parliamentary Secretary Thorsten Frei expressed the hope of a “common solution like at the beginning of the 1990s” at the editorial network Germany (RND). At that time, the Union and the SPD had agreed on restrictions on the asylum article in the Basic Law. “Our hand is outstretched,” Frei said. “I just hope that Gabriel’s intervention will be heard, especially in his own party.”
Sigmar Gabriel signals approval
Gabriel had told the RND: “We have to combine helpfulness and humanity with clear and enforceable rules for limiting immigration.” Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) rejected the initiative as unhelpful. More than three quarters of the people who come to Germany enjoy protection rights and cannot be deported at all, he told the “Nordwest-Zeitung” (Monday). “With the others, there are many people whose identity we cannot clarify or who are not taken back by their countries of origin.”