Deutsche Welle
The CSU’s Stephan Stracke, social policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU’s parliamentary group, told DW that while anyone fleeing “war and violence” had a right to protection, “This does not mean, however, that there must be an automatic entitlement to the citizen’s income in Germany.” Friedrich Merz, CDU chairman and Germany’s likely next chancellor, wants to revisit social welfare payments for Ukrainian refugees.