Germany migrants not integrating face cuts in benefits

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Express

ANGELA Merkel has said Syrian and Iraqi refugees will have to leave Germany once Islamic State (ISIS) has finally been defeated.

As Germany’s open-door refugee policy comes increasingly under fire, the Chancellor has tried to silence her critics.

Despite mounting pressure to cap the number of refugees in the wake of the Cologne sex attacks which saw 130 women sexually assaulted by men, believed to be migrants, Mrs Merkel has stood her ground.

Some 1.1million migrants entered Germany last year, many fleeing conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

Mrs Merkel said: "We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once ISIS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.”

Mrs Merkel said 70 per cent of the refugees who fled to Germany from former Yugoslavia in the 1990s had returned.

She urged other European countries to offer more help "because the numbers need to be reduced even further and must not start to rise again, especially in spring".

Speaking to a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Mrs Merkel said said all EU states should have an interest in protecting the bloc's external borders, and all would suffer if the internal passport-free Schengen zone collapsed and national borders were closed.

Peter Altmaier, who Mrs Merkel has tasked with overseeing the government's handling of the refugee crisis, said the government was negotiating with some countries including Turkey about taking back criminal refugees who arrived via non-EU countries.

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Voice of America

Germany: Migrants Who Won't Integrate to Face Cut in Benefits

Germany's labor minister is threatening to cut benefits for migrants who don't want to integrate into German society.

Germany registered nearly 1.1 million people as asylum-seekers last year. Integrating those who are allowed to stay into society and the labor market will pose a major challenge in the years ahead.

Labor Minister Andrea Nahles wrote in Monday's edition of the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that "all people who live in Germany, no matter what their ethnic origin, must make an effort, seek work and support themselves and their families as well as they can."

Nahles added: "We will cut benefits to those who signal that they do not want to integrate."

She said that could be measured by willingness to abide by German society's rules and to take language classes.

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I am 100% in favour of this

In the UK Kurdish community - the men tend to pick up some form of broken English but are generally swindled by by others who charge exorbitant amounts to do work for them in English - the Kurdish women are normally isolated within their home (or the home of a relation) never being able to mix freely in the host community

Many women from migrant communities are totally isolated and unable to go out on their own

It is wrong to allow what is little more than sex slavery within Europe