Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) was not surprised by the course of the refugee summit in Berlin. “First of all, it means that every group that is there says what they have in mind, what they want, so that the federal government knows where the shoe pinches,” he said on Friday in an interview with the TV channel der “Heilbronn voice”. “You can’t expect something concrete to come out of it.” Such meetings would have a different character than the meetings of the federal government with the prime ministers, at which decisions would also be made.
At the summit on Thursday, the federal, state and local governments agreed on better coordination on the accommodation and care of refugees. State Minister of Justice Marion Gentges (CDU) was dissatisfied because, from her point of view, there had been no concrete results on the core issue of accommodation announced by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The municipal state associations emphasized that the resolutions were insufficient because the capacities were almost exhausted almost everywhere in the south-west.
The prime ministers would have to discuss issues such as the financial commitments demanded by the state and local authorities “again very seriously” with the federal government, said the head of government on the show “Ohne Ausrede – Der Live-Talk vonstimme.tv” and added: “Ultimately he is responsible for the whole refugee policy.” The federal government should not leave the states and municipalities out in the rain. “The municipalities must also be equipped in such a way that they can do it. The federal government has a clear obligation to do so,” said Kretschmann.
