Reports coming out of Germany and Poland are shining a spotlight on the disquiet among voters in those nations over aid to Ukraine. Public concerns include official welcoming of refugees who end up receiving benefits from the state. Taxpayers in these countries are now asking just how much more they are expected to give.
Ever since Russia’s invasion in 2022, Ukrainian citizens aged 18 to 60 have technically been able to leave the country only with official permission. However that has not stopped a constant stream of deserters fleeing the beleagured nation under cover of darkness and at poorly guarded parts of the border. To make matters worse at the end of August this year, Kyiv decided to liberalize the law, allowing young men aged 18 to 22 to travel abroad.
According to data from the German Interior Ministry, the number of Ukrainians coming to Germany per week increased from just 190 in August to over 1,000 in September.
In October, the number increased even further to 1,400-1,800 per week.
Bavarian state First Minister Markus Söder has now called on the EU to respond to a massive influx of Ukrainian refugees.
“We must control and significantly limit the rapidly increasing influx of young men from Ukraine,” Söder said in an interview with the Bild daily, as cited by Do Rzeczy.
“The EU and Berlin must influence Ukraine to change its liberalized exit regulations again,” he added.
A new survey by the INSA Institute for “Bild” news organisation has also shown that the majority of Germans do not want to finance benefits for refugees from Ukraine.
In a recent survey only 17 percent of responded “yes” or “maybe” to the question about citizenship benefits for refugees from Ukraine. The majority, 66 percent, are against it, and 7 percent of respondents indicated that it makes no difference to them. The rest did not answer or selected “don’t know.” The survey also asked about the idea of mandatory return of Ukrainian men to their homeland to serve at the front.
Sixty-two percent of respondents believed that able-bodied Ukrainian men who arrived in Germany after the outbreak of the war should be allowed to return to their homeland. Eighteen percent of Germans surveyed opposed this, while 8 percent indicated they were indifferent, and 12 percent declined to answer.
In Poland, a report highlighting just how much aid that country has provided to Ukraine provoked a lot of hostile comment.
Paweł Kowal, Chairman of the Council for Cooperation with Ukraine, presented the “Polish Aid to Ukraine 2022–2023” report on Thursday.
The total cost of aid to Ukraine, including weapons and ammunition, training, logistics, humanitarian aid, and medical support, exceeded $4 billion by March of this year. In 2022, it reached $1.6 billion, and in 2023-2024, $1.3 billion. Poland has also donated over 19,500 Starlink terminals to the front.
In total, aid for Ukraine in 2023 / 24 represented 3.83 percent of Poland’s GDP.
The report’s authors, notes Do Rzeczy, also highlighted assistance for Ukrainian refugees, including access to healthcare, the labor market, and the education system. Poland additionally supported Ukrainian entrepreneurs by facilitating their business operations.
It's not only Europe - excluding Ukraine, Russia and Belarus - that's having a problem with refugees, asylum seekers, whatever the fashionable appelation for illegal immigrants is this month, but the whole of Western civilization. A question mainstream media will never ask relates to the the correspondence to the rising number of females running governments where we observe these globalist, open borders, welcome the flotsam and jetsam, emotion led policies? Females and males have entirely different ways - in the aggregate - of organizing, governing, etc. Books have been written to explain this.
Remember how the head of Harvard, Lawrence Summers, was dumped when he suggested the scientifically provable fact that women were less attracted to hard sciences than men and that it was due to natural differences? That same attitude permeates much of Western Civ as we currently know it.
Do you see the same problem in the Balkans or in Eastern Europe? The Middle East? Africa? China and South East Asia? Do you see many women heading governments in those regions?