According to the daily Bild, the German government is preparing a one-off gesture and hopes that the refugee camp will be restored and operated by the European Union.
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Many regional and local politicians in Germany assure the federal government that they will accept people from the camp that destroyed the fire last week, if the government allows them to.
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According to Bild, who refers to government and EU sources, Merkel is now in favor of accepting more refugees. The letter said the government was likely to approve the admission of at least hundreds of children from the camp along with their parents. Altogether there could be up to thousands of people.
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Merkel, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen are also working to build a new refugee camp on Lesbos, run by the EU, according to Bild.
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German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Friday that Germany would “accept” 100 to 150 juvenile refugees from the camp, which housed 12,000 people, “in the first step”. According to Seehofer, at least nine European Union countries and Switzerland will share four hundred migrant minors.
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It may be decided to accept more refugees by Wednesday, Bild and DPA write. According to the DPA, Merkel told the participants in the presidency of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) that she was in agreement with Seehofer from her sister CSU. However, according to her, the government continues to strive for a Europe-wide solution. According to the DPA, Merkel is going to meet with the mayors of German cities who want to receive refugees. “It is a human tragedy,” the Chancellor said of the situation on the island, according to Bild.
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Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU chief Markus Söder has already called for Germany to accept more migrants from Moria than previously planned. “In short, I believe that it is easily feasible for Germany to accept an even larger proportion of people, children and family members,” Söder said in a debate organized by Bild.
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Co-chairwoman of the Coalition Social Democracy (SPD), Saskia Esken, on Sunday evening, in an interview with ZDF television, urged that the decision to accept thousands of migrants from the Moria camp on Monday.
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