The German government has enlisted the help of its army to deal with the tens of thousands of asylum seekers arriving in the country every month. Nearly 80,000 migrants arrived last month alone, putting the country on track to receive 450,000 by the end of the year. Soldiers are being enlisted to help set up tents and other facilities as immigration centres are overrun. The use of army personnel to assist with the migrant problem has sparked a row, however, as Germany’s constitution calls for the army only to be used for defence or national emergencies, the Times has reported. Ministers have insisted that erecting the tents is simply a goodwill gesture, and not against the law, but Rüdiger Erben of the Social Democratic Party disagreed. “We are strictly opposed to changing the basic law of the country for this purpose,” he said. Ursula von der Leyen, the defence minister,
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