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Germany expects 300,000 asylum seekers this year
[IsraelTimes] As refugees continue to flow into the country, new poll shows 50% of Germans oppose a fourth term for MerkelGermany expects up to 300,000 asylum seekers to arrive this year, less than one-third of the total during 2015’s record influx, the Federal Office for BAMF chief Frank-Juergen Weise told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that Germany’s healthy economy and improvements to refugee services over the last year meant that the country was well-placed to absorb new arrivals, particularly as their numbers have dropped off. "We are preparing for between 250,000 and 300,000 refugees this year," he said. "We can ensure optimal services for up to 300,000. Should more people arrive, it would put us under pressure, then we would go into so-called crisis mode. But even then we would not have conditions like last year."
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... ’s right-left coalition government. The closure of the so-called Balkan migrant trail and a controversial European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... deal with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to keep Weise said his agency had made major strides in working through a large backlog in asylum claims but that it would not manage to clear the remaining 530,000 cases by the end of the year. He said integrating those allowed to stay in Germany into the labor market would be a "lengthy and costly" process. Weise was nevertheless upbeat about the long-term prospects. "We can do it," he said, echoing Merkel’s rallying cry during the crisis. "A lot of what was going badly in the beginning (one year ago) we’ve eventually managed to do pretty well. And the economy in Germany is so good, thank god, that we can afford it." Public sentiment is nevertheless sharply divided when it comes to Merkel, who has not yet said whether she will stand for a fourth term in a general election expected next September or October. Bild am Sonntag cited a poll by independent opinion research group Emnid showing 50 percent of respondents opposed another four-year term for Merkel, while 42% said they wanted her to stay in office. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-31 |
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