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Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD, l.), Federal Chancellor Scholz (SPD, m.) and Hesse's Prime Minister Boris Rhein (in November 2023)
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) will take part in a meeting of state leaders on migration policy next week.
A joint resolution by the federal and state governments will also be negotiated during the consultations, as the Hessian State Chancellery announced.
The meeting of the state prime ministers should actually have taken place on March 7th and without the Chancellor.
Now the meeting has been brought forward by one day due to the Chancellor's schedule.
At the beginning of the year, Hesse's Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU), chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK), asked for an early meeting to follow up on the MPK's results from last November.
At that time, the federal and state governments decided on the payment card for refugees as well as increased border controls and the examination of asylum procedures outside Europe.
The next joint meeting between the federal and state governments was actually not planned for June.
The rescheduling now allows the Chancellor to come to the conference table.
However, he will not attend the entire meeting, but will only be there for two hours for the agenda item “Discussion between the heads of government of the federal states and the Federal Chancellor on refugee policy”.
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