Two senior Social Democratic Party (SPD) district administrators in the German state of Thuringia have broken with their party’s national stance by demanding that most non-EU migrants — including asylum seekers and recognized refugees — receive social benefits only as interest-free loans, repayable once they find work. Matthias Jendricke, district administrator for Nordhausen, and Marko … Continue reading SPD district chiefs in German state of Thuringia call for migrant welfare benefits to be paid as loans