Thomas de Maiziere has said there is a limit to the number of migrants European Union member states can take – claiming they “can’t take every refugee”.
In the latest admission of the country’s excessively generous policy towards the migrant crisis, he said: “We cannot accept all the people who are fleeing conflict zones or poverty and want to come to Europe or Germany.”
The interior minister proposed that the EU creates legal routes of passage into Europe that would precisely count the arrivals of migrants and introduce strict quotas.