For the Union, it is taking far too long for the traffic light coalition to do something about the sharp increase in the number of refugees. So now she takes the initiative herself.
The Union faction in the Bundestag is putting pressure on concrete measures to curb illegal migration to Germany to be implemented quickly.
This Thursday she is introducing a bill in parliament that aims to pay refugees the lower benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act for 36 and not 18 months in the future. Only then should they receive the higher rates, which roughly correspond to social assistance. As a result, benefits are reduced. The draft implements the decision of the Prime Minister’s Conference from last week one-to-one, said parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz in Berlin.
Increased pressure to act due to increased migration
“The Chancellor and the coalition can demonstrate this week that they are really serious about a common German pact on migration – at least in this part,” said the CDU chairman. He sees the pressure to act even greater after the President of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Hans-Eckhard Sommer, stated in a letter to Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) that the number of people who had come to Germany in the past few months was higher than the number of registered asylum applications. Sommer justified this by saying that the federal states now have significant backlogs in registering asylum seekers.
“The urgency of making quick decisions on the issue of migration has actually increased again,” said Merz. CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt concluded from the letter: “This shows that we still have a migration crisis.” The resolutions of the Prime Minister’s Conference with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) were far from sufficient; more must follow urgently. At the request of the Union faction, the Bundestag will discuss the letter and its consequences in a current hour this Wednesday.
Criticism of the planned consultation of the new citizenship law
In this context, the head of the CSU MPs in the Bundestag was angry about the Traffic Light Coalition’s plan to discuss the new citizenship law for the first time in the Bundestag at the end of November. “I see this as a provocation towards the Union,” said Dobrindt. “It obviously shows that there is no real willingness to reach agreements with the Union to stop illegal migration.”
Dobrindt criticized: “This citizenship law will trigger a further strong magnet effect for additional illegal refugee flows. That’s why it is absolutely necessary to stop this law.” Anyone who wants to solve the migration crisis must reduce pull effects – i.e. incentives for migrants to come to Germany. “And this is where another big pull effect is created.”
Source: Stern
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