SZ Podcast “On the Point” – News from March 16th, 2022 – Politics

According to the Red Cross, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine is catastrophic in many places. The UN refugee agency estimates that almost 13 million people need help and protection. Three million have already fled. 1.8 million to Poland, almost half a million to Romania. Millions more people will flee, the United Nations predicts. So far, Germany has only taken in a fraction of the refugees. According to the federal government, there are 175,000. In fact, the number is likely to be much higher, because Ukrainians can enter the country without a visa and do not have to register immediately. Chancellor Scholz and the Prime Ministers want to talk about admission, distribution and costs this Thursday.

“The willingness to help is even greater than in 2015, and it was phenomenal back then,” says Karl Kopp, Europe director of the human rights organization Pro Asyl. The state, the welfare organizations and the churches are very central to the help. “But we also need state structures that help the private sector,” so that the helpers are not overwhelmed. In addition, one needs state-organized protection against violence and exploitation of the often traumatized refugees. “There are severely traumatized, sometimes very sick people.” Kopp: “And we have to give women and children special protection, also from men who are up to bad things.”

Kopp warns that not only three million will flee in the coming weeks, as has been the case to date. That could “exceed the threshold of ten million”. The longer the war lasts, the more people will not return to their homeland, says Kopp. In the second wave, many women, children and many old, sick people would come. Thousands of non-Ukrainian students have also fled. And “Roma will also flee Romania,” says Kopp. Soon you will have a wider range of refugees. “Now other groups are coming that are very needy, very vulnerable.” Orphans, residents of homes for the disabled, cancer patients who cannot continue their therapy. It therefore requires rapid coordination in Germany for distribution. “We also need that in Europe.” It will be “a big challenge, but there is no alternative. We have to do it”. And at some point, says Kopp, the trauma that people have experienced is so severe that one has to ask oneself: “Can one expect these people to return at all?”

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