Federal police officers at the border with Poland. With Brandenburg’s state police, they should check more intensively from June Photo: picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild
By Michael Sauerbier
Berlin and Brandenburg are reacting to the ongoing stream of refugees: a Senate task force is to find new accommodation locations. Brandenburg wants to control the Polish border.
Next Tuesday, the Berlin task force will be founded under the leadership of the governor Kai Wegner (50, CDU) and Social Senator Cansel Kiziltepe (47, SPD). Building and education administrations are also involved. Their goal: “The equal distribution of refugees across the districts – for more acceptance among the population.”
Berlin expects 10,000 to 12,000 new migrants this year. Senator Kiziltepe: “First of all, we will hold talks with the mayors. If each district can accommodate 1000 refugees, we have achieved great things.”
The task force should also clarify where three new modular accommodations will be built. Because of the lack of places, refugees will live in the former Tegel airport until the beginning of 2024. An average of four months. The Senate wants to build new schools for 1,600 refugee children.
Brandenburg wants to prevent illegal entry with “border controls based on the Bavarian model”. Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (63, CDU): “Each EU state can set up temporary controls – up to and including rejections. I hope that the Federal Minister of the Interior will implement the decision by the beginning of June. Our police can assist federal officials in doing this.”
“It’s not about barriers at the border that seal off economic and traffic flows,” says Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (61, SPD), “but about a significantly higher density of controls to combat smuggling crime. I believe that the federal government will accept the offer.” Brandenburg’s Minister of Social Affairs Ursula Nonnemacher (65): “We Greens are against it!”