mo4ch:>Germany spent record €23 BILLION on refugees and migrants in 2018 – report | Mo4ch News

Germany spent a record €23 billion ($25.65 billion) last year to integrate more than a million refugees at home and “fight the root causes of migration abroad,” according a government report.Describing the circumstances as “extraordinary,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel rolled out the welcome mat to over a million migrants in 2015, at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis. Although arrivals have dropped sharply since then, the German government’s spending has not.The federal government spent €23 billion on integrating those migrants in Germany and keeping more hopeful entrants outside the European Union, according to a Finance Ministry report seen by Reuters. The spending represents an increase of nearly 11 percent since the previous year.Also on rt.comMigrants assault German police ‘with bottles & stones’ after woman dies at refugee centerOf this sum, €7.9 billion was spent on measures aimed at keeping more potential arrivals out of the EU and improving living conditions in th…