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Ex-Union faction leader Volker Kauder and the SPD politician Hilde Mattheis are campaigning for more refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos.

The two members of the Bundestag have also accused the EU of major failings in refugee policy.

“The conditions in the Greek refugee facilities are incompatible with the Christian image of man.

It must be like a slap in the face for us when the courts find that people cannot be sent back there because the situation is unbearable, ”said Kauder of the“ Schwäbische Zeitung ”.

If refugee camps such as on Lesbos are the result, "then this Europe has lost its soul".

Mattheis reported in the interview from a visit to Lesbos in September.

“The tents are damp and leaky, the floors full of mud.

The sanitary facilities are completely inadequate.

The people in Kara Tepe on Lesbos wait years for the hearing in order to be able to apply for asylum, "said the SPD politician.

“For years children have not seen any school and no perspective.

We accept a lost generation. "

150 children have already been admitted

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After the fire in the Moria camp on Lesbos, the federal government promised to take in 1553 recognized refugees.

In addition, the coalition of CDU / CSU and SPD decided in March to take over 243 sick children with close family members from Greece as part of a European relief effort.

150 unaccompanied minors, whose admission Germany had also agreed to accept after the fire, are already here.

Kauder suspects that Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) would be willing "to do more if his own parliamentary group supports him".

"That is why the CDU and CSU must take a step forward for the humanly acceptable way of dealing with migrants in Europe."

The recording is correct, but ultimately not the solution to the problem.