The German government will continue to weigh options for outsourcing asylum procedures to countries outside the European Union and present concrete results by December, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday evening. His comments came after a meeting with the leaders of Germany’s 16 federal states at which migration and asylum policy were the dominant topic. Calls have been mounting in recent months from the municipalities and federal states, who are responsible for housing and care applicants, to increase funding and reduce the number of arrivals in order to relieve the country’s over…