refugees
Wüst calls for a migration summit with Scholz
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst wants to end irregular migration. photo
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If Prime Minister Wüst has his way, a summit on migration should take place early in the new year. He also reiterates his call for asylum procedures outside Europe.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst is pushing for a new top meeting on the subject of migration in the Chancellery. “We need an asylum summit with the Chancellor early in the new year,” said the CDU politician to “Bild am Sonntag”.
“The heads of government from the states and the federal government must review the effectiveness of the previous measures in January, or at the latest February, and be prepared to make adjustments if necessary in order to end irregular migration.”
At the last asylum summit to date at the beginning of November, Scholz reached an agreement with the heads of government of the 16 countries after months of dispute about the distribution of refugee costs and agreed on measures to reduce irregular migration to Germany. The federal government also wanted to check whether asylum procedures were possible outside of Europe.
At that time, Wüst in particular pushed for asylum procedures outside Europe. He now reiterated this demand: “At the top of the agenda are approaches already outside Europe, such as third-country solutions and binding regulations for people from countries with low protection rates.” In principle, the Christian Democrat emphasized that Germany “cannot fight poverty around the world with our right to asylum.”