Kretschmer: Migration policy needs a package of measures

Ahead of the Minister Presidents' Conference next Monday, Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer has called for a package of measures to limit migration. "We need to know what number we want to achieve. Once we know that, we will introduce the measures," said the CDU politician on Friday on ZDF's "Morgenmagazin". He listed possible measures including cutting social benefits, reducing the number of family reunifications and tightening controls at the EU's external borders.

The heads of government of the federal states will meet with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) next Monday to discuss the issue. On Wednesday, the federal government decided that asylum seekers and foreigners with a tolerated status should be granted faster access to the labor market in the future. In addition, the work ban for refugees living in initial reception facilities for single people is to be lifted after just six months. Previously, the ban applied for nine months.