Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer has once again spoken out in favor of an upper limit on immigration. A turnaround is needed on migration, the CDU politician said in an interview with the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (Monday). "For that, you have to talk about a number. How many people can we take in, can we integrate?" He also once again did not rule out amending the Basic Law for this purpose. Kretschmer also said that benefits for people who are obliged to leave the country would have to be cut. "These payments must be reduced, also to increase the pressure to leave the country."
The CDU politician at the same time accused the federal government of not taking proposals from the recent conference of minister presidents seriously. Resolutions passed at the meeting on Thursday and Friday had been ignored, he said. "That's not a smart political style, to wait until you're really up against the wall and there's no way forward. That is a reproach that must be made to the federal government," the prime minister said.
