Settlement with international locations: the federal authorities continues to assist with the prices of refugees

The federal authorities desires to proceed supporting federal states with housing prices and refugee integration with billions of euros every year. This can be a one-month dispute between the federal authorities and the established international locations.

Based on Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans, the federal authorities will contribute € 3.2 billion to € 3.Four billion a 12 months on refugee prices within the coming years. The CDU politician mentioned after a gathering of nation leaders with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, in 2020 it was 3.35 billion euros, in 2021 about 3.15 billion. At present, the federal authorities offers € 4.7 billion.

Funds ought to truly be considerably lowered

This can be a one-month dispute between the federal authorities and the established international locations. By the tip of 2019, varied guidelines for the reimbursement of refugees would have expired: the flat price of 670 euros for foreigners within the asylum process, the flat-rate integration and the lodging prices for acknowledged refugees. Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz had initially proposed that the federal authorities contain only one.Three billion euros. This has rejected the international locations.

Grants additionally with a lowering variety of refugees

The federal authorities will proceed to reimburse housing and heating prices in 2020 and 2021, Merkel defined. As well as, 350 million euros can be made out there to unaccompanied minors. The federal authorities's contribution of 670 euros a month within the asylum process can even proceed, Merkel mentioned.

As well as, the federal authorities will give a flat price of 700 million euros on arrival and one other 500 million euros the next 12 months for refugee functions. If the prices for the international locations had been to lower because of the lower within the variety of refugees, the entire funds would nonetheless be out there for integration.

Merkel added that, even after this compromise, international locations ought to nonetheless settle for some issues on the subject of refugee prices, to say the least. The primary mayor of Hamburg, Peter Tschentscher (SPD), and the prime minister of the Saarland Tobias Hand (CDU) welcomed the truth that, regardless of the discount in funding, this supplied planning safety.