Around 350,000 migrants will receive unemployment benefits this year, Germany’s Federal Employment Agency has said. Detlef Scheele, a member of the agency’s governing board, admitted that those aged over 35 do not have a good chance of qualifying for a well-paid job, while the process of integrating migrants into the country’s job market will be slow. He told Süddeutsche Zeitung that “we should not have too high expectations” that migrants will find work, admitting the majority will remain unemployed for at least five years after entering the country: “If things go well, maybe ten percent in the first year after entry will have a job, after five years, half, after 15 years 70 percent.” The majority of migrants cannot compete with the average German worker for jobs, he added, with unemployed locals having the natural advantage of speaking German as a native language. His prediction comes as the Cologne Institute for Economic Research says government spending on migrants will hit 22 billion euros this year and almost 50 billion euros by the end of 2017. The cost of food and accommodation for 1.5 million migrants this year alone will be 17 billion euros, according to the Rheinische Post, with another