Controversy around Krefeld solution: City rejects map for refugees!

Controversy around Krefeld solution: City rejects map for refugees!

Krefeld, Deutschland - The debate about the payment card for refugees and asylum seekers is heading in Germany. In Krefeld, the rejection of the city council on December 18 caused a political defense fight in which the SPD and the Greens are criticized as a preventive person. This card should prevent social benefits from draining abroad and at the same time reducing the administrative effort. While the CDU and the FDP advocate the introduction, critics consider the measures to be discriminatory and ineffective, such as Welle Niederrhein reported.

in Thuringia is required to increase the pace when introducing this payment card. The CDU and FDP in the Thuringian state parliament urge the state government to take its own steps and no longer wait for nationwide guidelines. Thomas Kemmerich, spokesman for the FDP group, calls for a quick extensive implementation of the map, which is already tested in some counties such as Greiz and Eichsfeld. However, the state government sees the introduction bound to nationwide standards, such as Merkur mentioned.

political cracks and national debates

The Berlin government divides the federal law regulation that could advance the use of the payment card. While the SPD is calling for legal certainty for the federal states, 14 out of 16 federal states have already agreed on a common procedure in order to create a uniform regulation for the introduction of the card until summer. The goal remains to prevent the money transfer to tractors and abroad.

The discussion shows how strongly the positions in the political spectrum divergence. While supporters of the payment card rely on standardization of the procedures, opponents warn of a stigmatizing measure that is not in the sense of the refugees. Time is pushing, and the voices in the opposition are getting louder, while the discussion at the federal level continues to seem undecided.