The authorities of Warsaw, Krakow, Prague and Kosice struggle to cope with the arrival of refugees and ask for help from their government.
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At Warsaw Central Station, a cloud of yellow vegetable volunteers have been activated since the beginning of the war in Ukraine to inform, nourish and accommodate thousands of refugees who pass there on a daily basis. But Michal Wilczenski, 38-year-old volunteer begins to run out of steam. “I do not think we will have enough strength to continue like that another two weeks. We need succession and support. Look at these sandwiches, it is a catering that makes them free. It would be necessary for the authorities to comledge. it would allow him incidentally to provide more. “
With already more than a million and a half refugees from Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict, Poland, provides, by far, the biggest effort in Europe to welcome civilians fleeing the war. But the country now seems to affect the limits of volunteering. As far as if, at the beginning of the conflict, Ukranians have often been able to count on private accommodation, many now arrive without any accommodation. Metropolises, like the capital or Krakow, the second largest city in the country, are even on the edge of saturation. “We now need an urgent government reaction,” Warsaw Mayor (Liberal), alerted, on March 10, asking to appeal if necessary “to the United Nations and the European Union ” His city already hosts 300,000 refugees alone.
Another important home country in Central Europe, the Czech Republic, which has welcomed 200,000 refugees since the beginning of the conflict, also called on the EU using on Saturday, March 12. The Minister of the Interior, Vit Rakusan, has requested the activation of the European civil protection mechanism in order to be sent modular buildings to build urgently “up to 25 humanitarian camps for 2,000 refugees each”. The main destination of the Ukrainians, the city of Prague started transforming gyms into dormitory. “This must make it possible to sleep 2,200 people,” says the Mayor (Pirate Party, Centrist) from Prague, Zdenek Hrib, where 35,000 refugees are already registered. “Nobody is forced to sleep outside in the cold night, but comfort is clearly not there.”
“who expected such a disaster?”
“In 2015, Germany had hosted one million people, Syrians, mainly, but over a period of one year,” compares Dalimil Petrail, one of the main Czech volunteers with his NGO help people on the run, To measure the effort of this country of barely 10.7 million inhabitants. “We lack coordination all the more since we had never prepared for such a wave of arrival.” Faced with this crisis, the Czech Republic has envisaged to request the introduction of a European distribution policy. Refugees, but this idea was finally dismissed Sunday, March 13th. Conservative Prime Minister Petr Fiala recalled that Prague had “rejected” such a solution seven years ago …
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