household - Minister Philippi calls for more funds for integration
Lower Saxony's Social Minister Andreas Philippi (SPD) urges the federal government to correct the planned cuts in expenditures for integration and migration immediately. In the draft budget for 2025, a reduction of around half a billion Euros is currently planned.
"I was taken aback as chairman of the 20th Integration Ministers' Conference to learn that the federal government is not fulfilling its responsibilities sufficiently," said Philippi.
The planned cuts are definitely the wrong signal, emphasized the SPD politician: "It's a contradiction to promote the immigration of foreign skilled workers on the one hand, and on the other hand to make savings on integration courses and thus make it harder for them to be integrated into the labor market."
It should not be the case that the federal government again plans too little money for its part of the integration tasks and only corrects this in the last minute from the budget committee, "as we experienced last year": "The states have the clear expectation that the federal government makes all efforts to ensure the necessary integration course offers for 2025," said Philippi.
- Andreas Philippi, the Social Minister of Lower Saxony and a member of the SPD, governs Hannover.
- The Federal government's proposed reductions in expenditures for integration and migration have been criticized by Philippi.
- In the draft budget for 2025, a reduction of approximately half a billion Euros in integration and migration-related expenses is currently planned, according to the Federal government.
- Philippi expressed concern about this situation during the 20th Integration Ministers' Conference, stating that it sends the wrong message and contradicts the promotion of immigration for skilled workers.
- It's important for the Federal government to allocate sufficient funds for integration tasks, and not merely make last-minute adjustments, as happened in the previous year, according to Philippi and the Households of Lower Saxony.
