They push themselves close together over the stairs of Berlin’s main train station. Five direct trains from Warsaw brought refugees from the war on Wednesday alone.
“The situation has changed dramatically,” he said Berlin’s Senator for Social Affairs Katja Kipping (44, left) already in the morning, “the numbers have increased by leaps and bounds.” While 350 war refugees from the Ukraine were housed in state accommodation on Monday, there were already 1400 on Tuesday – not including the arrivals, who were initially accommodated privately.
Shuttle buses bring the refugees to the arrival center in Reinickendorf (Oranienburger Straße 285). Soon they could Former airport Tegel have to head for.
According to BZ information, a separate arrival center with 1,000 places for Ukrainians is to be created there. Because they probably get as war refugees different admission conditions (e.g. work permit etc.) than the asylum seekers in Reinickendorf.
FDP social expert Tobias Bauschke (35) criticizes this: “Better to expand the Reinickendorf location. It’s working, the structures are in place.”
“For many, Berlin is the gateway to Europe,” says Kipping. So far there has not been any distribution to other federal states. Actually, according to the so-called Königstein key, Berlin would have to absorb 5.18 percent permanently – calculated according to tax capacity and population.
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Brandenburg’s Minister of Social Affairs Ursula Nonnemacher (64, Greens) Berlin has already offered good accommodation in the region.
Refugees can not only travel to Berlin by train from Poland for free, they can also use BVG and S-Bahn in the city with their ID card. The Berlin baths are also open to them free of charge this month.
Further information can be found on the Internet on the website of the Berlin capital city portal: www.berlin.de/ukraine.