(AP-ANSA) - ROME - A top member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party is suggesting Germany could introduce a one-year national service of some kind for refugees and asylum-seekers, which she says would help integration and increase Germans' acceptance. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the general secretary of Merkel's Christian Democrats, made the suggestion in an interview Saturday with the Funke newspaper group. It's an extension of a discussion she launched this month on introducing a vaguely defined "general service obligation" for Germans, civilian or military, as a possible future policy. Germany scrapped military conscription in 2011. Kramp-Karrenbauer said it's worth discussing whether refugees also should spend a year performing some kind of service to the state. She said that "if refugees do such a year, voluntary or compulsory, that serves their integration into the state and society. (AP-ANSA).