Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) expects migration to ease in the foreseeable future. "If we are successful with our measures, we will see a significant relief by the middle of next year," he said Tuesday after a cabinet meeting in Schwarzkollm, a district of Hoyerswerda. "We are now at the point where something is really changing in Germany." He said the coalition in Berlin must rid itself of party tactical pettiness. "This issue has to be sorted out now." The numbers would have to come down significantly in the coming years. Time is needed to catch one's breath.
According to Kretschmer, a message must go out into the world that there is no value in giving money to smugglers and setting off for Germany. At the same time, he advocated treating arriving refugees with dignity and respect. "We are talking about people coming to us, not numbers." The upcoming period will bring burdens, he said, because accommodation capacities have been exhausted. Nevertheless, it applies to pass this time with dignity, decency and probity.
The Saxon cabinet had met on Tuesday in the Krabat mill in Schwarzkollm and also invited the Bautzener district administrator Udo Witschas (CDU). He then reported, among other things, on the difficulties of accommodating refugees in the district. Sometimes it is very difficult to find housing for refugees despite a relatively high vacancy rate. The willingness of municipal and private homeowners to provide housing for refugees is limited.
Witschas had also addressed the issue of wolves at the meeting with the cabinet, which plays a major role in the district of Bautzen. As a district administrator, he had to do with it every day, he said. It is not only about the protection of herds, it is also about the attitude to life of the people of this region. There is a willingness to enforce the removal of conspicuous wolves, he said, and will comply with legal requirements in the process. Kretschmer assured the district administrator support in this concern.
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