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A group of Greens is calling for a drastic change of course in refugee policy. This is met with resistance within the party.
The refugee summit of Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is over, but the Greens have only just begun their own internal party migration debate. The occasion is a memorandum written by a group party members – the best-known co-signer is the mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer.
In the seven-page paper they criticize the German migration policy as missed, and acceptance among the population is therefore falling. They come up with ten ideas to facilitate the integration of refugees and the management of migration should lead. Among other things, so-called reception centers at the external borders of the European Union and faster deportations are planned if asylum seekers do not participate in the admissions process.
Escape: Hanover’s mayor criticizes “toxic basic attitude”
When asked by our editorial team, the Green party headquarters did not want to comment on the paper from their own ranks. According to our information, there has not been any contact with the signatories so far. Headwind comes from Belit Onay (Green). The Mayor of Hanover criticizes a “toxic attitude” in the migration debate.
“The paper deals with phantom debates. The reception centers at the EU’s external borders EU cannot be legally implemented, and the states concerned are not going along with it,” said Onay. He also does not experience deadweight effects in social benefits. “One should abolish the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act and apply benefits according to Book II of the Social Code instead.”
Integration: Green city boss calls for more help from the federal government
Unlike the authors of the memorandum, the mayor does not see the welcoming culture in Germany as exhausted. “I experience it differently in Hanover.” But more effort is needed nationwide and more support for the municipal level. “The overall responsibility of the state levels is necessary and thus a different structure for the distribution of the burden.”
The Green Mayor cites childcare as an example: the federal government makes demands on the municipalities that are not sufficiently and sustainably financed. In addition, Onay called for “professionalization in the refugee policy’, although volunteer work is important and praiseworthy. In his opinion, the statements made in the Green Paper do not meet with broad support in the Political party. However, they should undoubtedly cause debates.
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