Dresden (dpa/sn) – Saxony’s Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) warns of significant problems in the municipalities if the number of asylum seekers and refugees from Ukraine continues to increase. There are already difficulties with their distribution and integration, he wrote against the background of the federal government’s commitments to take in more people to Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD), as the “Leipziger Volkszeitung” reported on Tuesday. Living space is increasingly scarce, day care centers and schools as well as the labor market are burdened “in a not inconsiderable way” by “intensifying competition and displacement”.
“We share the assessment,” said SSG Managing Director Mischa Woitscheck of the German Press Agency on request. In several municipalities, especially in the cities of Dresden and Leipzig, the capacities for receiving and accommodating refugees are “increasingly reaching their limits”. This applies in particular to the housing market, but also to places in day care centers and schools. Temporarily used facilities such as gyms would be needed again for school and club sports. “It is therefore right that the interior minister clearly reminded the federal government of its joint responsibility and the agreements made at federal level.”
