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| Refugee influx to cost Germany 10 billion euros: Report | |
| 2015-09-06 | |
[AlAharam] The cost of Germany taking in a record number of asylum seekers could hit 10 billion euros ($11 billion), four times what Berlin spend looking after refugees last year, a German newspaper said Saturday.
...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... said on Saturday she was still aiming to balance the country's budget. The German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung calculated the revised costs in line with what was spent on 203,000 asylum seekers in 2014. Before Berlin raised its estimate of the overall number of people expected to file an asylum claim, it had set aside a budget of 5.6 billion euros to accommodate some 450,000 people, the paper said. With the increase of arrivals on German soil, the figure of 10 billion euros would be "consistent" with the cost estimates at all administrative levels --- federal, regional and local -- the paper said. Berlin has estimated it would cost local authorities between 12,000 and 13,000 euros to care for each refugee, which would include accommodation while an asylum claim is being processed, meals, medical care and 143 euros spending money per month. Another half a billion euros would be needed for the regional authorities to pay for extra teaching positions, as well as an unspecified sum for hiring another 2,000 employees for the federal office for immigration and refugees, and police reinforcements. Merkel's coalition will meet on Sunday evening to discuss the sharing out of costs between the state and local authorities, which must be settled by September 24. But despite the financial challenges, Merkel said on Saturday she wanted to balance the budget. "As a difficult task faces us, we cannot be satisfied with saying: 'Balancing the budget and the question of debt is no longer important,'" she said in her weekly video address. Merkel, who on Monday promised that the federal government would do more to help local authorities, did not mention any figures. On Saturday alone, Germany was expecting to receive an estimated to 7,000 migrants crossing the border from Austria. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 (Undeserved) Poetic irony regarding certain mid-century European events? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2015-09-06 20:48 |
| #5 Which means 20 to 30, plus the individual German buying less for more and any disease outbreaks and transportation shortages, fuel/energy shortages. I'm glad I took a lot of pictures the times I visited Europe. Even got to ride through the chunnel without being raided by pirates. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-09-06 18:15 |
| #4 The prognosis for 2015 is 1.2 million 'refugees.' I've heard that numbers circulated at a CDU (Merkel's party) event in Berlin suggested that the net 'refugee' influx for 2015-2017 would be 4-7 million, 1.5-2 million in '17 alone. This is little more than a rumor. As an extrapolation based on empirical observation it isn't implausible however, considering Merkel's iron political will and chain migration. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-09-06 17:56 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-09-06 17:40 |
| #2 You subsidize refugees and you get more refugees. Strange how that works. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-09-06 17:18 |
| #1 Per month or per day? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-06 02:55 |