Communes in Germany are already struggling to cope with an influx of refugees from Ukraine and other parts of the world, Frederik Paul, a German regional politician from the Christian Democratic Union, wrote in the pages of Die Welt. There are now more de facto migrants living there than during the 2015-2016 crisis. And the situation will only get worse in winter, as the lack of heat and electricity will force hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women with their children to flee towards Germany, causing German society “to reach boiling point”, the author warns.
German communes cannot cope with the influx of refugees from Ukraine and other parts of the world, Frederik Paul, a German regional politician from the Christian Democratic Union, wrote in Die Welt. German citizens are extremely irritated and it is possible that “society may reach the boiling point”, he warned.
The situation will only worsen in winter because of the harsh winter for Ukraine. Russia is destroying infrastructure so that people will have to live without electricity and heat. As a result, hundreds of thousands of women and children will flee towards Germany, and in many communes there are already more de facto migrants living there than during the crisis of 2015-2016.
This will be a serious test for German solidarity, the author warns. Already now, the first signs are visible that society may not be able to endure: people have started to divide refugees and asylum seekers according to the principle “Yes to Ukrainians and no to Iraqis and Eritreans”.
“I categorically reject this discourse of dividing refugees into two classes, because it does not help to solve the problem and the question of distribution. But if people subject to forced removal, those whose applications for refugee status have been rejected and those who have lost their right of residence were consistently deported, that would help.”
“I see that we are moving to the point of the limit of societal resilience, the limit of loyalty and solidarity. The mood must not be allowed to be poisoned by instigators on the right and those on the left who are trying to downplay the seriousness of the situation.” The centrists must make every possible effort not to allow German citizens and those who come to Germany to find housing and work to be pitted against each other, Paul urges.
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