Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the governors of Germany’s 16 states have agreed to strict new measures to stem large numbers of migrants entering the country, reaching a compromise on what has become a huge political issue for the government and a hot topic in Germany. society, reports Breaking News.
The new measures include speeding up the asylum process, limiting benefits for asylum seekers, and increasing financial support from the federal government for state and local communities.
In a speech on Tuesday after a late-night meeting that lasted several hours, Scholz, the Social Democrat who heads the centre-left government, called the agreement “a historic moment” – a comment that showed how vexed the issue had become for the government.
Official figures show that the number of new asylum applications submitted this year at the end of September was almost 73% higher than in the same period last year, reports Breaking News.
Shelters for migrants and refugees in Germany have been filling up for months and the chancellor, who has faced intense pressure from the opposition and elsewhere to halt the trend, said “too many are coming”.
Since the beginning of the Russian war, Germany has welcomed over a million Ukrainians into their homeland, reports Breaking News.
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