However, only nine percent of those questioned are in favor of unconditional admission. 45 percent do not want to take in the refugees who are now stuck in Belarus in Germany.
Germans are divided in their view of the migrants and refugees stuck on the border between Belarus and the European Union. In a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov, 48 percent of those questioned are in favor of allowing refugees to enter Germany in order to then check whether they are eligible for protection in this country. For the most part, however, only under certain conditions. 45 percent are against inclusion.
Only nine percent of the participants in the representative survey on behalf of the German Press Agency spoke out in favor of enabling these people in Germany to undergo an asylum procedure – without attaching conditions to admission. 21 percent of Germans would only be able to travel to Germany if other EU countries were also willing to allow asylum seekers from this group into the country.
Another 18 percent of the participants in the survey only want to accept refugees from the Polish-Belarusian border who come from war zones. Seven percent of those surveyed did not give a clear opinion.
The willingness to take in people stranded in Belarus is strongest among those under the age of 30 and supporters of the Greens. This idea has the least support among eligible voters between the ages of 40 and 70 and among people who tied the AfD’s cross in the last federal election. However, resistance to acceptance in Germany without further conditions is also relatively high among FDP supporters.
For weeks, thousands of migrants and refugees have been trying to get from Belarus across the EU’s external borders to Poland or the Baltic states. The EU accuses the authoritarian Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko of targeting people from crisis regions to Minsk in order to smuggle them into the EU. Many of the people who are now stuck in Belarus come from Iraq, some also from Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan or Iran. A large number of migrants indicate Germany as their destination. The number of unauthorized entries into Germany via Poland has risen sharply since the summer.