CDU’s Thomas Strobl leads calls for change in policy, with welfare payments higher than in neighbouring countries
Ukrainian refugees in Germany should have their access to welfare payments cut and should be processed through the asylum system instead, a number of leading German politicians are insisting, arguing that the current situation is becoming “difficult to communicate” to voters.
The calls have come ahead of a meeting of the interior ministers of the country’s 16 states and the federal interior minister, with some saying Germany is in effect too attractive for Ukrainian citizens because it pays them more than neighbouring countries.