“Massively relieve household”
Union: Heil must put refugees into work
6/6/2023 5:26 am
Before the consultations in Brussels on the reform of the EU asylum rules, the Union is putting pressure on the traffic light and Minister of Labor Heil. Group leader Middelberg expects savings of several billion if more refugees could work.
The Union has called on the federal government to support asylum checks at the EU’s external borders and at the same time to get more recognized refugees into work. That would be a “massive and lasting contribution to relieving the budget,” said the deputy chairman of the Union faction, Mathias Middelberg. Just 100,000 more refugees who didn’t need state support and instead paid into tax and social security funds “would relieve the federal budget and social security funds by two to three billion euros a year,” he calculated. The CDU politician used the minimum wage or the average wage as a basis.
“The uncontrolled asylum immigration to Germany must now be slowed down quickly and sustainably,” demanded Middelberg. Also because the burdens on the federal budget are already enormous and claim tens of billions every year. In particular, people who come to Germany as asylum seekers often find it difficult to find their way into the job market, and Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil from the SPD must do more here. For example, the proportion of refugees from Syria who are subject to social security contributions is still far too small.
Praise for Baerbock
It is to be welcomed that the Green Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, now considers asylum checks at the European external borders to be possible, said Middelberg. It would be even better if “as foreign minister of the largest EU member state, she would not only comment passively, but also work actively and quickly to implement the proposals.”
Baerbock had said: “Border procedures are highly problematic because they interfere with civil liberties.” However, the EU Commission’s proposal is the only realistic chance of achieving an “orderly and humane distribution procedure” in an EU of 27 very different countries in the foreseeable future. The EU interior ministers will discuss a reform of the common European asylum system next Thursday. It is about the procedures at the borders, from which, according to the ideas of the federal government, families with children and unaccompanied minors should be exempted. It is also about a “solidarity mechanism” so that states on the external borders such as Italy and Greece, where many asylum seekers arrive, are relieved.