Head of the German department on migration issues and refugees Fran Juergen Weise expects no more than 300 more people to come into the country.
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“We can guarantee optimal operation with up to 300 000 refugees”.
Weise added that if more people were to come than estimated, his office would come under pressure but suggested he was not anxious about such a scenario, saying it was instead likely that fewer than 300,000 would come this year.
Gabriel also criticised Merkel’s catchphrase “Wir schaffen das”, meaning “We can do this”, which she adopted during the migrant crisis last summer and has repeatedly used since.
Germany’s top migration official expects fewer than 300,000 refugees will come to the country this year.
The closure of the so-called Balkan migrant trail and a controversial European Union deal with Turkey to keep migrants from reaching Greece – a main entry point into the bloc – has driven down arrivals in 2016 from the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Concerns about how to integrate them all into German society and the labour market are now rife and support for the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) has grown. “And the economy in Germany is so good, thank god, that we can afford it”.
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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 percent said they wanted her to stay in office.
