Austria adopts new measures for refugee integration

In an attempt to integrate the migrants and refugees into the society, Austria has set up a new fund to speed up the efforts of achieving such endeavor.

The 145 million euros fund will finance different projects which will help integrate migrants within the society such as teaching children German in schools and other curriculum aiming at training the refugees on different professions, in cooperation with the Austrian labor ministry.

Chancellor of Austria Werner Faymann discussed with his government on Friday evening various options and ideas, which meant to ease the refugees' integration into the community.

They decided to allocate 70 million euros for training the refugees on different professions, a program which around 5,000 migrants would benefit from.

An additional 75 million euro others will go to fund other programs.

Source: MENA