Michael Kretschmer wants an upper limit of 60,000 refugees per year by 2030. Saxony's Prime Minister hopes to revive an old deal with Turkey.
The head of government also spoke out in favor of renewing the EU-Turkey agreement. Every rejected asylum seeker who is not deported is "a failure of the state, is a defeat and cannot be accepted because the population will not accept it either," said Kretchmer. The federal government must also stop development aid to countries that do not take back rejected asylum seekers.