M municipalities criticize the result. It is clear that “we cannot handle a volume of currently well over 300,000 people per year” The German Association of Cities and Municipalities also considers the results of the meeting to be inadequate.

The 16 Prime Ministers discussed migration and asylum policy with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on Wednesday. There were no new decisions. However, the states demanded clarity from the federal government about a possible relocation of asylum procedures to countries outside the EU.