ERFURT (dpa-AFX) – Thuringia’s Prime Minister Mario Voigt (CDU) is in favor of repatriating Syrian refugees in view of the upheaval in Syria. “We have many well-integrated Syrians in Thuringia, who prove that there are many who make an effort and want to get involved,” said Voigt to the German Press Agency in Erfurt. These people are very welcome. But there are also many Syrians who are not integrated and who have not integrated into society even after years. “There is no reason why they should be here anymore. The regime is gone.”
After a German delegation visited Damascus, the Development Ministry warned against state-initiated returns of Syrian migrants to their homeland. A strategy paper points to the poor humanitarian situation and the fact that the transition process is being overwhelmed with possible new conflicts within the country.
Voigt said: “I believe that the immediate political threat to those who came here has at least diminished.” It is not yet known exactly what a new Syrian government will look like and whether an Islamist state will emerge there. “But it’s all the better that sensible people go back and build their home,” said Voigt.
Overall, things are currently loud Federal Ministry of the Interior There are around 975,000 Syrians in Germany. The majority came in the years since 2015 as a result of the Syrian civil war. Their employment rate is currently around 40 percent. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) recently decided not to decide on asylum applications from people from Syria for the time being due to the dynamic development in the country./htz/DP/he