Germany introduces new measures to make country less attractive to migrants • FRANCE 24 English

From a payment card that does not allow cash withdrawals, to mandatory community service, Germany is introducing measures to make the country less attractive to migrants. The country remains the destination of choice for asylum seekers within the EU. More than 330,000 people sought asylum there last year: almost a third of all applications in the EU, according to the European Asylum Agency. But the new measures – agreed by the government and regional leaders last November – are beginning to appear in municipalities across the country, especially in eastern Germany, where regional elections are due in September. The far-right AfD party is leading the polls there and its main campaign theme is immigration. Our correspondents report.
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[caravanlifenz]

80 cents per hour to clean their own room, kitchen and toilets. That's insane. I wish my government would pay me 80 cents per hour to clean my own room, kitchen and bathroom.

[c.v.v]

Shouldn’t this have been a requirement for asylum seekers in first place..? seeking asylum doesn’t mean you get a freebie lifestyle..

[kdnofyudbn]

Notice how they complain but they won't leave.

[Here-]

They are receiving 460 euros of monthly social benefits and one complains that he cannot buy coffee in a neighboring town, but I did not hear him say Thank You for providing your resources.

[jayshko]

These aren’t refugees. Words have meaning, stop lying.

[SifuPuma]

Minimum wage isnt even a part of the conversation when "sleeping all day" is an option for a healthy young man.

[gertrudewest]

They’re upset they have to work ( barely it seems), for their free food, housing, cash and medical? Unbelievable!!!

[ApLemon]

It is outrageous that illegal immigrants send to their countries the money they got for free from the taxes of the citizens that worked hard.

[philipbunker]

Economic migrants, not refugees or asylum seekers!

[teresabenson]

Why is it "extremist" to want to control who comes into your country and lives on taxpayer money?

[marcobagut]

Wow! I mean… They need to clean their own dirt and not have Germans cleaning for them? That is really incredible!

[placeswelive]

Stop calling them "asylum seekers."

[gaarn]

Why dont they go to rich Saudi, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman..

[ozkroca]

Should read: Germany introduces perfectly reasonable and necessary measures to assure migrants actually contribute to the country. This should be implemented in every country.

[nn]

I still don't understand how one can be an asylum seeker from Turkiye.

[keys]

So you give them a allowance for cleaning their room? What a joke

[johnhughes]

so they're whining about having to work 20 hours a week to keep their (presumably tax payer funded) accommodation up to scratch, technically they're earning 244 euros a month (84 from working, 180 in benefits) but if you take their accomodation into account its probably more. What whiners I can see why things didn't work out where they came from.

[bishalghosh]

4 hours a day ? Are you kidding me ?
- I study 4 hours at University 5 days a week that's 20hours
- Self study 2-3 hours a day - that's another 18-20 hours
- Part time shift another 18-20 hours a week
Cleaning my room/kitichen/etc is not even counted as working hours - so I work approx. 55-60 hours a week and these Asylum seekers complaining about 4 hours ? Are you joking ? What nonsense

[lolopololoca]

These people are not refugees, give me a break.

[blahblah]

Complaining, complaining, complaining.
These folks are so ungrateful.