Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has made it clear in budget negotiations with coalition partners that the 13 billion euro surplus will not be spent on anything except migrants. While many government projects promised in the coalition agreement are being suspended, government departments which can claim their own spending is benefiting migrants stand to receive significant cash boosts. Minister Schäuble has expressed worry that the spending my lack focus and end up creating giant amounts of waste saying, “we in the federal government, in the context of wanting to act as quickly as possible, may lose the viewpoint of efficiency”, reports Die Welt. The coalition partners see the situation differently. Vice chancellor and leader of the Socialist party Sigmar Gabriel wants to spend far more money on programs for migrants, beyond even that in the current budget. Gabriel would like to see more currently planned projects funded in case they need to pay further billions later on when more migrants arrive making integration much more expensive. The minister for labour Andrea Nahles also has her eye on the surplus, requesting up to half a billion euros claiming her department needs the money to fund 100,000 so called “one-euro” jobs for asylum seekers. The minister also