Posted on 05/14/2016 3:42:25 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
Germany's government expects to spend around 93.6 billion euros by the end of 2020 on costs related to the refugee crisis, a magazine said on Saturday, citing a draft from the federal finance ministry for negotiations with the country's 16 states. The figure is likely to stoke concerns, particularly among growing anti-immigration movements, on the impact of new arrivals on Europe's largest economy which took in more than a million people last year, many from Syria and other war zones. The numbers arriving have fallen this year, helped by a deal between the European Union and Turkey that was designed to give Turks visa-free travel to Europe in return for stemming the flow of migrants. German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel said the finance ministry's calculations included the costs for accommodating and integrating refugees as well as tackling the root causes for people fleeing from crisis-stricken regions. Officials based their estimates on 600,000 migrants arriving this year, 400,000 next year and 300,000 in each of the following years, the report said, adding that they expected 55 percent of recognized refugees to have a job after five years. A spokesman for the finance ministry declined to comment on the figures but pointed to ongoing talks between the government and states, saying they would meet again on May 31 to discuss how to divide up the costs between them.
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Are they High?
Remember when the Germans had a reputation as being smart?
Bomb Mecca, the Ka’ba is gone, great mosque is gone, problem solved; no Haj necessary.
Do one-way tickets to Turkey really cost that much?
That’s only 24 billion euro a year, Obama p!$$es that much over the bank a month.
yes he did and he had the GOP’s help
93.6 billion Euros for one million refugees? A simple suggestion: offer them 50 thousand Euros each to leave.
I am a fugee...spend a mil on me.
How long can a bunch of Germans get walked on before something very bad happens? Mrs. Fireman is mostly German... I have learned through bitter experience not to push her too far.
I am sure the return on that investment based on the contributions the refugees will make to their communities and the scientific breakthroughs they will contribute to the world will be staggering
Justice will be served if merkel has a knife to her throat and has a choice, pay it back from her own funds or off with the head. And the things muslims do to Germans get done to her too.
LOL!
So why can’t they spend that money on their defense?
Why don’t they just encourage their people to have more babies?
me too, we want equal rights dam it lol
Time to put up a wall around Germany.
When were they ever smart? They kept insisting on getting themselves into two-front wars.
German government plans to take 93.6 billion euros from German citizens by end of 2020
Funny how they can afford this but not their own defense, eh?
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