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    Austria unveils plan to cut benefits for immigrants - BBC News

    Austria's coalition government has unveiled plans to cut benefit payments for immigrants, including refugees, in a move aimed at deterring new arrivals.

    The main benefit payment will be capped at €563 ($655; £492) a month, rising to match the amount Austrians receive - €863 - if they pass a German test.

    Immigrants will also be barred from claiming such benefits for five years.

    Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, in government with the far right, has vowed a hard line on immigration.

    Mr Kurz campaigned in last year's parliamentary election with pledges to cap benefits for refugees and to shut down migrant routes to Europe.

    "The fundamental rule we will introduce is that German will become the key to accessing the full minimum benefit," Mr Kurz told a news conference on Monday.

    In 2015, at the height of Europe's migrant crisis, more than 90,000 people applied for asylum in Austria, more than 1% of the country's population.

    Initially the refugees were welcomed, but the mood in the country quickly changed.

    I thought only the UK was full of gammon faced, immigrant hating cretins?


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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Austria unveils plan to cut benefits for immigrants - BBC News




    I thought only the UK was full of gammon faced, immigrant hating cretins?

    Gammon is the new black
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      #3
      We have talked about this before.

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