In 2016, an upper limit for asylum was introduced under Chancellor Faymann. State Governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) wants the payment card to be based on the German model.
Very few people will remember it now that it is being unpacked again by Burgenland Governor Hans Peter Doskozil: the upper asylum limit. Austria must set an upper limit of 10,000 on the number of asylum applications by 2024, the red country leader demands.
He wants to include only 330 people in his state in primary care; there are currently more than 3,000 refugees in primary care. Instead, there should be targeted labor migration, Doskozil said.
Austria is the number 1 destination country in Europe
He justifies his claim by saying that when it comes to per capita pollution per 100,000 inhabitants, Austria is by far the number 1 in Europe, ahead of Germany and Italy.
The idea of an asylum ceiling is not new. It was a major topic after the wave of refugees in 2015 and sealed the political end of the then SPÖ Chancellor Werner Faymann.
In 2016, the red-black coalition agreed on an upper limit of 37,500 asylum seekers, after 100,000 applications in 2015. Faymann’s 180-degree turn from a hospitable culture to a higher asylum limit resulted in a flute concert during the May march on Vienna’s Rathausplatz. He resigned on May 9, 2016.
Doskozil today calls for further tightening. If the asylum decision is negative, no further financial support may be provided, apart from the offer of return support. Similar requests also came from Upper Austria.
State Governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) wants a payment card instead of cash for asylum seekers, following the German model. In the future, benefit recipients in 14 German states will receive part of their social benefits as credit on a card instead of as a cash payment. This is intended to prevent money transfers to home countries.
Source: Krone
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