Bavarian premier calls to cap migrants
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Germany only has capacity for a maximum 200,000 asylum seekers a year, about a fifth of the number it received in 2015, Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer said yesterday.
鈥淚n Germany, the arrival of 100,000 to a maximum 200,000 asylum seekers and war refugees a year would pose no problem,鈥 Seehofer, who heads the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 Christian Democrats (CDU), told Bild newspaper.
The CSU, which has been up in arms over Merkel鈥檚 welcoming refugee policy, is calling for Germany to cap the number of asylum seekers it takes in.
鈥淟imiting the number of migrants must be the main objective in 2016,鈥 Seehofer said ahead of the CSU鈥檚 annual conference this week in the Bavarian mountain resort of Wildbad Kreuth that Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron are scheduled to attend.
鈥淭his figure (of 200,000) is tolerable and, in that case, integration would also work properly. For me, anything above that is excessive,鈥 Seehofer added, warning of up to 1.5 million arrivals in 2016 unless measures to contain the migrant influx were taken.
Merkel has so far categorically refused to set a limit. In her New Year鈥檚 address she told Germans the influx was 鈥渁n opportunity for tomorrow.鈥
Germany took in almost 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015, five times the 2014 tally, local media reported this week, citing unpublished official figures.
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