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Germany's Scholz agrees on tougher migration policy with state leaders
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BERLIN, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who seeks to reduce the number of asylum seekers and stem support for the far-right, agreed on a tougher migration policy and new funding for refugees with the heads of Germany’s 16 states after hours of negotiations early Tuesday.
The meeting was aimed at garnering state leaders’ support for such moves and addressing local authorities’ complaints that public coffers and infrastructure are overburdened.
Concern about migration has increased as numbers requesting asylum have risen, boosted by the one million Ukrainian refugees who arrived in the country after Russia began its war in February last year.
Last month, Scholz told parliament the country’s democratic forces needed to rally together to tackle issues such as migration to counter the “so-called ‘Alternative’ that is in reality a demolition commando”.
Scholz’s centre-left cabinet last month passed a law to make it easier for authorities to deport members of criminal associations and to search migrants’ homes to establish their identity.
His government has also agreed changes to existing rules to enable asylum seekers to enter the labour force more rapidly and to punish human traffickers with longer prison sentences.
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