Germany needs 450 million euros to integrate just ten per cent of the migrants and refugees who have arrived in the country in the past year, the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs said.

Andrea Nahles says the money, some £352million, would be used to create jobs for an estimated 100,000 refugees, including the provision of training opportunities and internships.

Germany took in more than one million asylum seekers in 2015, leaving the labour minister with a task 'impossible to manage with the current budget'.

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Germany's Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. Andrea Nahles says the £352million would be used to create jobs for an estimated 100,000 refugees - just ten per cent of last years intake.

Ms Nahles said: 'We cannot take away the money for the long-term unemployed', adding that otherwise there would be a 'cut-throat competition, and the stoking of fears instead of reducing them.'

Ms Nahles added that every year more money would be needed for other integration projects and that the 450 million euros would only cover a short-term solution.

Ms Nahles, of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), said that talks had already started with finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), to get the funds needed.

She said that the job possibilities included additional chances for the unemployed such as the one-euro jobs but at the moment only those currently on Hartz IV benefits were eligible for these.

Earlier, Germany's job agency the Bundesagentur fur Arbeit (BA) had predicted that the integration process in the job market of refugees would not be easy.

Plan for the future: Ms Nahles added that every year more money would be needed for other integration projects and that the 450 million euros would only cover a short-term solution

Crisis: Cabins are set up inside the former airport Tempelhof to be used as a temporary emergency shelter for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin, Germany

BA boss Detlef Scheele said in an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung: 'We should not have too many expectations.'

He added that if things went really well, in the first year of arrival maybe ten per cent of the refugees might end up with a job, and in five years it might be half.

He estimated that after 15 years, it could be around 70 per cent.

This follows Ms Nahles' announcement last week that she plans to cut benefits for migrants who don't want to integrate into German society.

Just as long-term unemployed are obligated to take jobs if they're offered, asylum-seekers should be expected to take German language and integration classes, and start working when they're able, Nahles said.

'Whoever needs help will get it,' she said. 'But you can't get support for nothing.'