Nationwide debate

Are refugees in Vienna really doing too well?

Family reunifications and the influx from Ukraine are causing problems for Vienna. Help is now being demanded from the federal government and the federal states. Vienna argues that they are not fulfilling their obligations. A fact check on a debate that is becoming increasingly politically charged.

Ever since the wave of refugees in 2015, there have been discussions about how refugees in Austria can be better and more fairly accommodated without bringing individual regions to the brink of collapse. Among other things, asylum quotas have been introduced for the federal states. These are calculated based on the size of the respective population. There are no sanctions for non-compliance. The result: Vienna is the only federal state to have filled or overfilled its quota in recent years - Vienna currently stands at 198 percent.