Irish Times: Strain across Europe as new refugee crisis builds
Berlin building tent city for new arrivals
For generations of walled-in West Berliners, Tegel Airport was the gateway to the world.
Two years after the airport closed, Tegel’s temporary reactivation in March as a Ukrainian reception centre now looks permanent.
With new white tents popping up here daily, new EU asylum figures on Wednesday showed the continent is experiencing its highest influx of people since 2015.
“We still have the people from Ukraine but now more people are coming from elsewhere and that creates additional pressure,” said Detlef Cwojdzinski, Berlin’s leading refugee crisis manager, on a visit to Tegel.
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WNU Editor: Europe has always been divided. But a flood of millions of more refugees into Europe will definitely make these division worse .... Russia hopes a winter wave of Ukrainian refugees will divide Europe (Atlantic Council).
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