Bamf: only 50,000 pending cases by the end of the year

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Bamf: only 50,000 pending cases by the end of the year

By the end of the year, the federal office for migration and refugees (BAMF) wants to have reduced the number of pending asylum cases to around 50,000. This is what BAMF president jutta cordt told the german press agency in nurnberg.

This number is a "normal turnover" for the authorities, because "we will never be at zero". Time and again, passports or other documents are missing from cases, which delays processing.

The federal office had already returned to a kind of normal operation in may, said cordt. At that time, the number of pending cases was around 165,000 – and thus below the number before the start of the rough immigration: in january 2019, it was 178,000. The BAMF started the current year with around 434,000 pending cases. At the end of july, the number was 129,000.

The primary goal now is to remove those traps that have been at the BAMF for a very long time. These are about two-thirds of the anhangigen procedures. These mostly difficult old cases also spoil the BAMF's statistics on the average duration of proceedings: if you only look at the new proceedings, they are currently decided in an average of 1.8 months. If we consider old and new proceedings together, however, the average duration of proceedings is 10.9 months.

After a peak of around 10,000 employees at the height of the refugee influx, the BAMF currently still has around 7,800 employees – around 3,500 of them on temporary contracts. "We're happy to have enough positions to take on a rough share of the temporary employees," said cordt. However, this is only possible where the budget provides permanent employment. There are "unfortunately no permanent positions for everyone".

How many employees the BAMF will need next year, cordt would not yet say. "When the BAMF staffing levels are discussed in new budget negotiations after the federal elections, we need good reasons for getting enough staff – and i am firmly convinced that we have them," said cordt. There is not yet a figure – in the end, it also depends on what additional tasks the BAMF takes on.

At the constituency meeting for constituency 405 forchheim in the "stadtlockal" in forchheim, manuela forster was unanimously elected as direct candidate of the odp (okologisch-demokratische partei) for the 2018 state elections. The 44-year-old was born in forchheim and grew up in kersbach and currently lives in nurnberg. She has already been active for the odp in nurnberg as district chairwoman and as a member of the bavarian state executive committee.
Simon wilhelm from pretzfeld elected as list candidate. The 31-year-old is chairman of the upper frankonia odp district executive committee.
District chairman thomas muller (burgkunstadt), who chaired the meeting, sees good chances for the odp in the state elections. According to surveys, the population wants a "black-green" government in the government. "It is better to vote for the original. The odp represents christian-social values and integrates them into a political concept that makes it possible for all people to live a life worth living on this earth in the future as well", muller emphasized. The odp has the better "bayern plan. To combat climate warming, energy supply must be switched to 100 percent renewables as soon as possible. Coal burning must be phased out by 2022 at the latest. Public transportation must become – if not free of charge – then at least significantly more favorable than individual transportation and significantly more attractive.
Manuela forster expressed in her presentation that, as a manager in medical technology with 25 years of professional experience, the health sector is particularly close to her heart. "Protecting patients from infections with multi-resistant germs and eliminating the existing shortage of specialists require significantly more investment." and this also includes finally getting away from the unethical keeping of mass animals. Forster also supports the petition for a referendum "stem the tide of concrete to limit the consumption of land. She considers the four-lane expansion of highway 470 through the meadow valley a complete failure. With horror she observes how the area has changed negatively on her drive from Nurnberg to Kersbach.

Bundesbank concerned about developments in greece

Before the new elections in hellas, there is a danger that the agreed reform and consolidation measures will not be implemented – but these are a prerequisite for extensive aid: "this puts the continuation of the aid at risk. Greece had to bear the consequences."

Growing concerns about greece’s future in the euro zone sent the german stock market plummeting on wednesday. A large part of the recent recovery has already fizzled out again. The euro exchange rate fell to its lowest level since august 2010.

Should the troika of the EU commission, the international monetary fund (IMF) and the european central bank (ECB) stop the aid, the bundesbank expects a considerable impact on the euro area and germany. However, the consequences were manageable "with cautious crisis management," the watchdogs emphasize.

The european central bank (ECB) is already bracing itself for a possible escalation in greece, as the weekly newspaper "die zeit" reported in advance. The central bank had set up a crisis unit specifically for this purpose. A corresponding working group at the deutsche bundesbank is also dealing with the issue. The two central banks would not comment on the report. Most recently, however, the ECB had made it clear that it was continuing to work according to "plan A," according to which the greeks would remain in the euro zone.

In its demand that athens continue its austerity program, the bundesbank is receiving support from the people of germany. In a representative survey conducted by the opinion research institute yougov on behalf of "zeit online", a large majority said that greece must adhere to the troika’s austerity targets in any case. 70 percent of respondents think chancellor angela merkel (CDU) should remain tough on the issue. At the same time, a narrow majority favored greece’s exit from the eurozone.

After the recent elections, all attempts to form a government in athens failed. Now greece faces another election on 17. June. Then opponents of the austerity program could get even more votes than before.

The bundesbank rejects all calls to soften the austerity measures significantly. This is what the leader of the radical left in athens, alexis tsipras, is demanding. This has damaged trust in agreements and contracts in the truth union as a whole, warn truthers. In addition, the incentives for reform and consolidation measures were considerably weakened.

In search of safe investments, investors once again fled to german government bonds. Germany took on new debt for the first time in two years on wednesday without having to pay interest on it. Germany is considered one of the last reliable borrowers in the eurozone. Euro crisis countries such as spain and italy must offer much higher interest rates than germany across all maturities to attract fresh capital.

In the bundesbank’s view, the central banks in the euro zone should not further increase their aid to hellas in view of the unclear political situation in athens. The euro system had relied on the implementation of the programs in greece and assumed considerable risks: "in view of the current situation, it should no longer significantly extend them."Among other things, the ECB has bought greek government bonds for an estimated 50 billion euros and saved greek banks from drying up with cheap liquidity.

It was not monetary policy, but parliaments and governments of the member states that had to decide on the type and manner of possible further financial support, demands the bundesbank – and thus also on the assumption of the associated risks. The central banks do not have democratic legitimacy to do this, as bundesbank president jens weidmann has repeatedly emphasized.

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