Mertes to Zelensky: Fewer Ukrainians should be refugees in Germany
Germany’s chancellor told Ukraine’s preside that fewer young Ukrainian men should come to Germany as refugees.
According to Isna, German Chancellor Friedrich Mertes said in a speech on Thursday evening: “After a phone call with Ukrainian Preside Volodymyr Zelensky, I asked him to ensure that young Ukrainian men do not increasingly come to Germany, but serve in their own coury.”
“I told Preside Zelensky that young Ukrainian men are needed in their own coury,” the German chancellor emphasized, according to the AFP report.
“German social welfare laws will soon change to reduce paymes to Ukrainian refugees, thereby creating more inceives to find jobs,” Mertes added.
“The benefits of these refugees will be adjusted in such a way that the inceives to work outweigh the inceives to stay in the social welfare system,” he noted.
After the start of the war, Ukraine had barred all men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the coury, with limited exceptions, but Kiev eased those rules in August.
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