Conference of Interior Ministers: Municipalities: State should significantly curb migration

Before the conclusion of the interior ministers’ conference, cities and municipalities are calling for irregular migration to Germany to be significantly curbed. “We expect signals and measures from the federal and state governments to order, control and limit migration,” said André Berghegger (CDU) from the German Association of Cities and Municipalities to the editorial network Germany (RND, Friday).

For many municipalities, family reunification is a challenge. What is necessary is a restriction to cases of hardship. “Family reunification should only be granted if suitable living space can be proven.” In addition, there is a need for impulses for better integration of refugees with prospects of staying “and a commitment to funding language and integration courses.”

Brandenburg’s minister: CDU and SPD removed from migration

On Thursday, Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) stated that there were major differences between the SPD and the Union-led states in the interior ministers’ discussions on asylum and migration policy. The SPD states are not prepared to support the Union’s essential demands, emphasized Stübgen at the conference in Rheinsberg, Brandenburg.

This applies, for example, to the CDU’s demand for the expansion of the list of so-called safe countries of origin as well as possible rejections – including of asylum seekers – at German borders, explained Stübgen.

SPD Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said before the three-day interior ministers’ conference that she did not want to lead any “sham debates” on asylum policy. “Asylum applications are currently 40 percent lower than last year, and deportations are 20 percent higher than last year,” said Faeser.