Germany: Abolish the monthly allowance for asylum seekers from the Balkans

Germany's finance minister, Markus Zeder, has proposed abolishing the 140-euro monthly allowance that asylum seekers receive in that country, explaining that the money is a motivation for people from the Balkans to come to Germany.

"It's like one monthly salary in Serbia or Kosovo. For many people from the Balkans, it's a motivation to come to us," Zeder said, warning that the current wave of immigrants in Bavaria must be reduced.

As reported by Tanjug, Zeder, advocating for reducing the number of asylum seekers, said that decisions are needed now and "first of all, checking financial standards".

With the idea of ​​abolishing 140 euros for refugees, he joined the president of the Federal Service for Migration and Refugees, Manfred Šmit, who previously announced that people who most likely will not receive asylum must be told that they will not receive "pocket money" from day one.

According to him, in this way the number of asylum seekers would decrease.

"It pays to travel to Germany in three months," Schmidt said.

He demanded that Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro be declared safe countries, as was done with Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, after which the number of immigrants from those countries was reduced.

And the deputy in the state parliament of Saxony, Alexander Kraus, said that it is important that the 140-euro fee for asylum applicants from the Balkan countries is quickly abolished.