The interior ministers have agreed to support measures by the BMI aimed at effectively curbing irregular immigration of people without a visa and without protection needs or grounds for asylum. The obligation to leave the country for people without the right of residence is also to be enforced efficiently. At the same time, the SPD interior ministers support the BMI's efforts to intensify border controls by the Federal Police as well as to conclude migration agreements with countries of origin, which also regulate cooperation in the readmission of nationals obliged to leave. In this context, Saarland's Interior Minister Reinhold Jost expresses satisfaction with the decision of the A-IMK to classify further countries, including Georgia and the Maghreb states, as safe countries of origin.
The A-IMK also supports the agreements of the recent refugee summit to jointly develop additional courses of action in all relevant topics within a compact and intensive working process by the end of March, organized into four defined thematic clusters. As part of this working process, a prepared discussion on the future financial distribution of refugee costs between the federal government and the states is also to be conducted. The A-IMK sees the Federal Ministry of Finance as responsible for developing a proposal for the future burden-sharing between the federal government and the states, which reflects the actual development of refugee numbers and costs and provides for a corresponding adjustment of the federal government's financing share. The A-IMK emphasizes the importance of further strengthening foreign authority procedures and digital migration management and welcomes the considerations to enhance and further develop the Central Register of Foreigners (AZR) as a central nationwide IT platform for foreign authority administration.
Together with his A-IMK colleagues, Interior Minister Reinhold Jost expressly welcomes the willingness of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building to support the states and municipalities in accommodating refugees with offers in the area of serial construction and through financial funding. “In particular, the provision of urban development and housing funding directly for the construction of accommodation capacities represents a valuable relief,” says Jost.
