Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – Hesse’s Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) was partly disappointed by the federal government with the result of the refugee summit. There is still a lack of concrete commitments for help with refugee costs, said the spokesman for the Union-led interior ministries on Tuesday in Wiesbaden. Since April, the municipalities have been waiting for a clear statement on how the federal government will financially support them in accommodating refugees from Ukraine and other countries.
“But this federal government needs to finally take action to quickly improve the situation in the federal states and municipalities,” Beuth demanded. After a top-level meeting with representatives of the federal states and municipalities on Tuesday in Berlin, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) announced, among other things, that the federal government wanted to make federal real estate available for the accommodation of 4,000 refugees in view of the increasing number of refugees.
Faeser did not make any financial commitments. How the federal government wants to contribute to the refugee costs is to be clarified in a federal-state meeting at the beginning of November.
