The FPÖ wants to send crisis intervention teams to Ukraine’s neighboring countries and set up refugee camps here.
War is raging again in Europe and the first people are already leaving their homeland behind. While the battle for the Ukrainian capital of Kiev between Ukrainian and Russian soldiers is now in full swing, almost the whole of the rest of Europe is expressing its full support for Ukraine. As reported by “Heute”, in addition to several state governors, representatives of the federal government have also shown themselves open to accepting refugees from the war zone.
FPÖ wants to see preparations
Naturally, Herbert Kickl is a little more reserved when it comes to taking in refugees. The FPÖ leader rumbles once again in a broadcast and calls on Chancellor Karl Nehammer and representatives of the federal government not to repeat the mistakes of the past. “If ÖVP Chancellor Nehammer has been announcing for days that Austria will of course take in people fleeing Ukraine, it would also be high time to communicate the corresponding preparations openly,” said Kickl and his party colleague Hannes Amesbauer.
First Ukrainian refugees in Vienna
The Blues point out that, in their opinion, several mistakes have already been made in the past and that there has been an unbridled wave of migration that has brought Austria to its borders. Although it is also self-evident for the blue politicians that Austria must help in this “precarious situation”, the FPÖ leaves it partially open how this is to be done.
Accordingly, Kickl and Amesbauer are appealing to the EU to set up refugee camps in neighboring Ukrainian countries immediately. After that, the Freedom Party wants to send crisis intervention teams to these camps to ensure the psychological care of the refugees. Apparently, the FPÖ does not want to take in people seeking protection in Austria for the time being. “In any case, it must not happen that illegal mass immigration from one side continues unimpressed and acutely seeking protection from the other side, without any concept, enter the already totally overburdened asylum system,” said the two FPÖ politicians.
Today’s news ticker about the war in Ukraine
However, the central core of the Freedom Party’s policy remains that Austria should remain neutral in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The FPÖ therefore lets it be known: “Only swinging the sanction club alone will ultimately not be enough”.