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Germany struggles to house refugees

The calls for help keep coming from municipalities that are running out of room to take in asylum seekers and war refugees from Ukraine. The latest example: the Fulda district in the central German state of Hesse. Towns and municipalities are “at the absolute limit of their capacity” to accommodate people “at least halfway humanely,” reads a letter from the county council to the state and federal governments, which a large majority of local lawmakers endorsed in mid-July.

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