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Ukraine war: Faeser opposes Merz's refugee allegation - "95 percent are Ukrainians"

2022-03-27T10:59:10.706Z


Ukraine war: Faeser opposes Merz's refugee allegation - "95 percent are Ukrainians" Created: 03/27/2022, 12:53 p.m By: Cindy Boden Many women and children seek protection in Germany because of the Ukraine war. The parties argue about the registration. News ticker. Escalated Ukraine conflict*: Germany's interior minister refuses to register all Ukrainian refugees. The Federal Ministry of the In


Ukraine war: Faeser opposes Merz's refugee allegation - "95 percent are Ukrainians"

Created: 03/27/2022, 12:53 p.m

By: Cindy Boden

Many women and children seek protection in Germany because of the Ukraine war.

The parties argue about the registration.

News ticker.

  • Escalated Ukraine conflict*:

    Germany's interior minister refuses to register all Ukrainian refugees.

  • The Federal Ministry of the Interior knows of almost 267,000 refugees from Ukraine.

  • This

    news ticker on reactions from Germany to the Ukraine war

    * is continuously updated.

    More on the background of the Ukraine crisis* here.

Berlin - The Ukraine war continues, people are fleeing: Germany is looking for solutions to provide the arriving refugees with the best possible care.

Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD*) has now rejected the registration of all refugees from Ukraine in Germany demanded by the Union.

"We are talking primarily about children and women who have been fleeing for days, who have had to endure the cold at the Polish border," the minister told the

Tagesspiegel

.

The refugees should not be held up for controls at the German border.

“Just to clarify: people have the right to move freely here.

And third-country nationals are of course registered,” emphasized Faeser in the interview.

Ukrainians are registered as soon as they come to an initial reception center or apply for state aid.

Germany's role in the Ukraine war: SPD Minister Faeser rejects Merz's allegation

The SPD politician rejected allegations by CDU * leader Friedrich Merz that you hardly know who is actually coming to the country and where the people are.

“The federal police get on the trains when they cross the border and check all passports.

Anyone who does not have a passport or comes from a third country will be recorded and registered," Faeser told the newspaper.

"95 percent of the people who flee to us from Ukraine are also Ukrainian nationals," said the minister.

So far, there is no evidence that Belarus, for example, is specifically sending people to Europe.

There is also no evidence of possible terrorists who could try to come to Europe with the Ukrainian refugees.

Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens, right) and Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) distribute sweets to refugee children.

© Boris Roessler/dpa

Ukraine war and Germany's position: Bavaria expects a structured and coordinated approach

Among others, the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) warned of a security gap when accepting Ukrainian refugees.

"It is important that identification measures ensure that the arriving people can be identified," said the chairman of the conference of interior ministers to the newspapers of the

Funke media group

.

Herrmann called on the other federal states to follow the Bavarian example.

There the police not only register arriving war refugees, but there are also identification measures.

The personal details would be compared with the search databases.

"I also expect a structured and coordinated approach from the other federal states," said the CSU* politician.

You can read more about the events of the Ukraine war in this news ticker.

War in Ukraine: Hundreds of thousands of refugees seek protection in Germany

Since the beginning of the Russian attack around a month ago, the federal police alone have recorded 266,975 refugees from Ukraine in Germany.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior announced this on Sunday (March 27) via Twitter.

Most of them are women, children and old people.

The actual number of refugees is unknown because there are no comprehensive border controls - it is likely to be significantly higher.

It is also not recorded how many people travel on from Germany to other countries.

Ukrainians also do not have to register with the German authorities because they can enter the country without a visa for 90 days.

They are only recorded by the authorities when they report to them, for example to claim state aid.

(AFP/cibo/dpa) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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