At the request of Germany, polish Ministry of Interior and Administration is canceling special trains for refugees to Germany

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  1. In recent years, Western Europe has already absorbed most of the wave of refugees heading to Europe.
    Now it’s the turn of Eastern Europe and especially of Poland

  2. Computer aided translation
    The deputy head of the Poland’s Ministry of Interior and Administration informed that, at the request of the German Ministry of the Interior, special trains organised for Ukrainian refugees to travel onwards to Germany would be stopped.

    Since February 24, i.e. since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 1.77 million refugees have passed the Polish-Ukrainian border. A significant part of Ukrainians reached the largest cities, mainly Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław. Many of them do not go to the places prepared for them, but wait at the stations and want to continue their journey to the West. There were more passengers than seats available, and the overcrowding situation was becoming difficult to control.

    The war in Ukraine. Special trains to Germany

    On Friday, March 11, the deputy minister of interior and administration announced that special trains with refugees will depart from Polish cities to Berlin, Cottbus, Frankfurt (Oder), Hanover and Munich over the weekend. I talked to the refugees at the station. They told me, “We’re not going to leave here because we want to keep going.” “They do not want to go to accommodation here in Poland, they want to go to the West. We will make it possible for them at the weekend” announced the deputy minister and emphasized that this step had been agreed with Western partners. Due to the launch of additional trains, telephone users with Ukrainian SIM cards received messages in Ukrainian regarding the planned departure times of the trains.

    Transit Trains For Refugees suspended.

    However, on Monday morning in “Rozmowa Piaseckiego” on TVN24, Szefernaker stated that the trains will be suspended. – “I am convinced that this scale surprised the whole of Europe, because yesterday evening we had discussions with the German Ministry of the Interior, which asked us if we can stop special trains going to Germany, because the Ukrainian refugees have already become a bottleneck there. This shows how the EU and other Western countries were not prepared for such a situation”, said the deputy head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration. Earlier, the mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, warned that the city was “reaching its (capacity) limits” in accepting refugees from Ukraine.

    On Thursday, March 10, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, Mariusz Kaminski, issued a statement following a meeting with his German and French counterparts that the three ministries had established an informal headquarters in which they intended to include the ministers of internal affairs of other EU countries “in order to deal with the great European problem which there is a wave of war refugees in Europe ”.

  5. As harsh this might sound, it’s time to close the border. Overwhelming majority of refugees choose Poland over other neighbouring countries. I see no other option here. Polish government needs to think realistically, and the facts are they’re already beyond the breaking point. Clearly, other countries aren’t too eager to share the burden as they accept only very small portion of the Ukrainian refugees.

  7. If only there would be someone, let’s say the EU, who suggests a fair distribution of (any) refugee throughout Europe, measured by the GDP of european host-countries.

  8. Remember, Russian trolls everywhere to stir up shit about each other. Show cohesion and understanding.There are always some logistical and technical problems preventing a smooth process of such a major event, and shining the light on such problems as if it’s intentional is one way of Russians to hope we lose trust in each other. (Besides just outright lies in the media) And sometimes it’s just letting the government know to that they need to step up their game, because they can be occupied with a million different things.

  10. We have a lot of refugee housing set up in Berlin since the Syrian migration. Not sure why we can’t house a lot of them again.

  11. Seems like a deal, ee will handle this one and help out brothers we is on call again for the next mena migration hike.

  12. Poland took 2800 refugees in 2020. Took just thousands refugees from Syria in 2015. Have a look at the wiki page. Enough for west Europe for now, i understand Germany asks to stop these trains. Every county has its limits. I afraid that in the end, as a reaction, everyone will defend anti refugee policies.
    Just help these people. Polish conservatism is based on pure Christian-white values. there is a very thin line between segregating races and being a polish conservatist. Don’t like it.

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