PanARMENIAN.Net – Germany has pledged to spend €150 million helping failed asylum seekers and immigrants return home, the minister of development said in an interview published on Friday, December 9, according to AFP.

The aid fund will benefit both failed asylum seekers and immigrants who choose to return to their home countries.

“For the next three years, we will put aside €50 million a year for this return programme,” minister Gerd Müller told Augsburger Allgemeine daily.

The funds will be made available to Iraqis, Afghans and immigrants from the Balkans.

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