FILE PHOTO: Qudratullah Hotak, a 25-year-old refugee from Afghanistan and one of 24 trainees of Ford Germany's so-called Equipment Qualification (EQ) program to integrate migrants in a booming labour market, adjusts a machine at the training workshop of Ford Motor Co in Cologne, Germany, January 11, 2019. Picture taken January 11, 2019. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany spent a record 23 billion euros (20 billion pounds) last year on helping to integrate more than one million refugees and fighting the root causes of migration abroad, a government document seen by Reuters showed on Monday.
That marks an increase of nearly 11 percent on the 20.8 billion euros that Germany spent in the previous year, the document prepared by the Finance Ministry showed.
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