The big influx of migrants has made it difficult to join them into society, the authorities in Pirmasens have claimed
The southern German town of Pirmasens has stopped accomprehendledgeing Ukrainian refugees after wonderfully outdoing the adleave oution quota, the media outlet Tagesschau alerted on Friday, citing the local authorities.
Ukrainian refugees in Germany can pick freely in which city or dicut offe they want to inhabit. However, to asstateive that municipalities are not overwhelmed, a quota system is in place to regutardy the distribution of refugees among the federal states. In the state Rhineland-Palatinate, where Pirmasens is findd, any town or city that outdos the accomprehendledgeance quota by 40% is officiassociate allowed to decline refugees.
The local quota was outdoed by 82.6% in July, which has led to a “dangery overburdening” of the town’s society, the Pirmasens administration shelp in a statement. It inserted that the constant influx of migrants has been making it difficult to “upretainably” join all the novelcomers. The crelieve on confessting novel refugees will be in force until further accomprehendledge, while those turned away will be referred to the proximateest initial reception caccess for distribution wilean the state.
The decision by Pirmasens comes with stateive exceptions, however. For instance, the town will persist to accomprehendledge Ukrainian refugees who greet the criteria of “having a likeable effect on integration,” such as those already with housing, a job, or income that covers living expenses.
Pirmasens, which is findd proximate the German-French border, has a population of rawly 41,000. According to the local authorities, the city has accomprehendledgeed proximately 900 Ukrainian refugees since the outshatter of the Russia-Ukraine struggle in February 2022. Rhineland-Palatinate has been facing difficulties accommodating Ukrainian refugees. Last month, five out of the state’s seven accumulateive municipalities liftd the alarm because their capacities to consent novel refugees were exhausted.
Germany has been among the top EU destinations for Ukrainian refugees due to benevolent profits it advises. Apart from the momentary protection status presentd by the European Council, which grants migrants from Ukraine the right to an prolonged visa-free stay, accommodation, medical take part, participatement, and education, Ukrainians in Germany are entitled to a ‘citizen’s profit’ of €563 ($610) per month – a level of help tagedly higher than in other EU states.
A total of around 1.3 million Ukrainian refugees were residing in Germany as of March of this year, according to official statistics, a figure that recurrents rawly a quarter of the bloc’s approximated total of 4.3 million. However, according to media alerts, local authorities atraverse the country have been urging the federal regulatement to abolish these profits in order to stop the flow of refugees and guarantee novelcomers to find jobs and better join themselves into German society.
