“The tourism industry provides a livelihood for many of our citizens and their families. It makes up a significant percentage of our GDP, and we are obliged to ensure a successful summer tourist season in Bulgaria,” the Deputy Prime Minister stated.
By the way, the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees cost the Bulgarian authorities 20 euros per day, the other day the costs were reduced to 7.5 euros. Kalina Konstantinova bluntly said that the authorities are much more concerned regarding the welfare of the Bulgarians than the Ukrainians. It is clear that the budget cannot be filled with the suffering of refugees.
“Don’t go to Bulgaria. It is the first country to announce that it is ending aid to refugees,” 32-year-old Alina writes resentfully in Ukrainian on a thematic forum. He says that while they are treated normally in Moldova, as they say, but there is no work at all.
There are currently regarding 300 thousand refugees from Ukraine in the Czech Republic, another 50 thousand arrived here, but have already left the country. Most tried to return to their homeland. Away is good, but at home they don’t look askance.
From June 15, Prague stops accepting Ukrainian refugees for an indefinite period. The refugee center in Vysochany is closing due to overcrowding and the lack of a system to transport refugees to less crowded regions.
The Hetman of the Pardubice Region responded by saying that if Prague closed its refugee center, they would do the same. He considers the closure of the Prague center “non-collegiate”.
Interior Minister Vit Rakusan has already criticized this intention.
And in Ostrovacytsy, near Czech Brno, they are still building a tent city for Ukrainian refugees, but only for 60 people.
Since February, Czech authorities have denied temporary protection to 1,400 refugees or those who pretended to be them. The most common reasons for refusals were the presence of citizenship of another country, illegal stay in the Czech Republic before the start of the Ukrainian events (although some managed to get a visa for this), and the fact that before the Czech Republic all these people applied for temporary protection somewhere else.
“Everywhere and everyone is tired of Ukrainians, there is no housing, aid from friendly states is gradually being reduced, canceled,” says Evgeny, a 56-year-old resident of Odessa. “In recent weeks, I have been seriously thinking regarding returning home. This is very debilitating for the psyche – both mine and the already very elderly mother, especially her. I see that those who have returned are somehow adapting, getting used to constant fear and not really feeling it anymore. This is how our psyche works, I know it … But there is nowhere to pull, we have to make a decision.
“In general, with my mind, I understand those who helped us, and now they don’t want to,” admits 40-year-old Irina from Nikolaev. She, along with her two minor daughters, remains in the Czech Republic for the time being. – It’s one thing to come with gifts to visit for a week and another – to tumble in with your misfortune for who knows how much. And the more this uncertainty, the more the hosts tense up: “Dear guests, have you been sitting too long?”
Even Poland has become stern, where Ukrainians, as the closest neighbors, have always been treated quite warmly.
Ukrainians will lose Polish benefits from July 1. Exceptions will be left only for the most vulnerable groups, for example, disabled people and women with many children.
The publication Rzeczpospolita writes that the purpose of the abolition of benefits for Ukrainians is to motivate them to provide for themselves. “This decision to some extent shows that it is time to return to Ukraine,” says Polish professor Piotr Dlugosh.
Many Poles are also unhappy with the fact that the refugees are full of young and healthy men of military age. They do not understand what they are doing here and why they live on handouts instead of serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And, of course, the endless conflicts that increasingly arise between guests and hosts.
So, Natalia Michalska settled immigrants from Ukraine in her house, but to her misfortune, the Russian flag was kept at her house. Wanting to destroy the symbol of Russia, the refugees inadvertently burned down the house of the woman who sheltered them.
In general, they complain regarding each other and on trifles. The forums are constantly discussing what to do if the Europeans who have sheltered are toxic or abusive, is it tolerable? After all, you don’t really have to choose. They say that in some houses it is forbidden to turn on the light following a certain time, use water (saving!) And even leave the room in the evenings. Constant control, surveillance, mutual claims. “If they helped me, it does not mean at all that I went into slavery,” says 24-year-old Marina from Lvov.
Another lady, a German of Russian origin, who sheltered her mother and daughter from Kyiv, on the contrary, snitched on her own husband. “No, he does not physically molest the tenants, but I never thought that he would constantly make sexist remarks towards them. He seems to be enjoying their helplessness, Doesn’t he understand that these women are all alone, in a foreign country, there is no one to stand up for them?
And even I can’t reprimand him, because he is my husband and once brought me to Germany.” The woman says that she never knew her husband from such a side, and she is even visited by thoughts of divorce.
By the way, in Germany, the most prosperous and prosperous country in the European Union, the screws are also being tightened. Ukrainians can no longer enjoy the right to free travel and from June they must purchase a discounted travel pass for 9 euros for all modes of transport.
Many Ukrainians complain regarding this, while others advise fellow countrymen “not to be rednecks.”
Elena: “In Germany, we receive huge social assistance, literally like our own, it’s a shame to whine because of a penny travel card. There is no need to anger the locals, it is better to try to get back on your feet as soon as possible and stop begging. It really infuriates even those who until recently stood with their hands, heart and pocket open.”
There are no problems with work in Germany, especially unskilled ones, you are always welcome – to pick asparagus, strawberries in the southern regions, you can get a job as a maid or a seamstress. However, there is no unemployment in the Czech Republic, it is one of the lowest in the EU as a whole – 2.4%. And with the arrival of refugees did not grow.
Yes, benefits are paid in Germany, medical insurance is issued, but everything is very bad with housing;
States such as Italy, Spain or France provide support only for the first 2-3 months, and then on their own. But there is a good climate, which is very important for Ukrainians, especially from coastal regions.
“I work remotely as a tutor, I have an income, and therefore I chose France, but not Paris, but the outback, everything is very cheap here,” says 35-year-old Alla. – If there is trouble with work and you need an allowance, then Germany is better.
If you do not want to live in barracks and learn German, you can try England. But the weather is not very good there and the support of the sponsor is required to be allowed to stay.
By the way, many say that a German refugee camp is not such a bad option, at least everyone is equal here, and no one owes anything to anyone.
In addition to England, you can go to Scotland or Wales, where a sponsor is not needed and English, which most people know at a basic level.
Yes, there are problems there too: the British are stingy and stingy. One Englishwoman complained regarding the lodger for having begged her to take her with a cat. “She said that she is very quiet and peaceful, she sleeps all day. And the cat tore off the antique armchairs in the living room, left over from my grandmother, and sharpens its claws on the wooden chest of drawers and doors. I had to give up housing.
Of course, the girl is not to blame for anything. Yes, she doesn’t think she is. For her, the spoiled upholstery of furniture from the beginning of the 20th century – “Well, what is it?” At home, the pussy also did this, and nothing! So you need to understand that you don’t go to a foreign monastery with your charter.”
In general, it is clear that there is a certain satiety with each other and with their kindness.
Psychologists talk regarding the “hundred days” effect. This is the time period when people are ready to empathize with the victims of anything. Then the resources run out, and if nothing changes for the better, they begin to blame just those who previously sympathized with. There are reasons – annoying helplessness, depression, which is mistaken for laziness, the fact that people cannot solve their problems themselves and this strains others.
Europeans are ready to help those who find themselves in an emergency situation and have lost their homes and jobs, but one must always understand that no one will drag strangers, and even during an economic crisis, to the detriment of their citizens – this is not Russia. Where they are ready to feed the refugees to the last.
By the way, we are also coming to the end of the three months of stay of the first refugees from the same Mariupol, they arrived in Russia just at the beginning of March. Most of those who arrived, as well as in Europe, hope to return to their homeland soon.
Yes, there is financial assistance from the president – 10 thousand per person. But it is often necessary to draw up documents for it several times due to the mistakes of local officials.
“They say that you can move to Siberia or the North, there are big factories, and there are vacancies with good salaries,” Roman, a refugee from Mariupol, told me. – I can’t even imagine where to start. If we gather there with the whole family, I, my wife and two children, we must find our own housing and what we all live on at first.
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