Germany prepares to accommodate up to 400,000 …
Germany prepares to accommodate up to 400,000 Palestinians
The German government is preparing contingency measures to potentially receive and house up to 400,000 refugees from Palestine amid the ongoing escalation in the region, according to a high-ranking aide to a federal minister who spoke to POLITICO on condition of anonymity.
BERLIN — At an emergency closed-door cabinet meeting, Chancellor Friedrich Merz instructed relevant ministries – including the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Federal Foreign Office – to develop a Kabinettsvorlage (cabinet submission) and corresponding government draft plans for large-scale reception and integration capacities, the source said.
The initiative includes provisions for the German state to finance the evacuation and transportation of Palestinian refugees to Germany. The measure comes as recent reporting by German tabloid BILD highlighted that Berlin has required its own citizens evacuated from crisis regions in the …