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Germany Lacks Proper Conditions to Host Large Number of Refugees - Activist

© REUTERS / Stefanie LoosMigrants wait for the visit of German President Joachim Gauck in an asylum seekers accommodation facility in Berlin, Germany, August 26, 2015.
Migrants wait for the visit of German President Joachim Gauck in an asylum seekers accommodation facility in Berlin, Germany, August 26, 2015. - Sputnik International
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Germany has not managed to create the proper conditions for hosting big number of refugees, but it has a potential for it, the chairman of the German Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM) said.

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RIGA, (Sputnik) —Germany has not yet created the proper conditions to efficiently host large number of asylum seekers, but it has a potential for it, the chairman of the German Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM) said.

Last month, the German Interior Ministry said it expected 800,000 asylum seekers and refugees to arrive in the country by the end of the year, a figure almost four times as many as in 2014.

"Of course, there are no [such conditions in Germany]. But they can be created. Earlier this year, no one could say how many refugees would arrive. But Germany is quite a prosperous country, and can create the conditions for them," Karl-Heinz Wendt told the Baltcom radio on Wednesday.

The activist praised authorities' attempts to find the best possible solution to the migrant crisis, but added that the German "complex" administrative system and multiple bureaucratic procedures often make the refugees remain in limbo, or could face human rights violations, for instance, be denied food or necessary medical aid.

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On Tuesday, German Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Andrea Nahles said the country was ready to accommodate refugees, but it would cost it up to 3.3 billion euro ($3.7 billion), and these costs were likely to increase to around seven billion euro by 2019.

Germany is one of several EU countries reeling from the rapidly escalating migrant crisis, as hundreds of thousands of people flee the war-torn regions in the Middle East and North and Sub-Saharan Africa hoping to find refuge in the European Union.

According to EU external border protection agency Frontex, the total number of refugees detected at bloc's borders between January and July 2015 stands at over 340,000, which is three times higher compared to the same period in 2014.

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