Germany Dispatch: 'The way the government is dealing with things is sh*t'

MEE's Mary Atkinson is in Recklinghausen, a small town in northwestern Germany, talking to locals about the influx of refugees and migrants arriving in their country.

A 50-year-old woman named Sandra, who is currently looking for work, said the German goverment's coordination on the ground for refugees is lacking:

"The way the government is dealing with things is shit, totally shit. There is absolutely no coordination between the organisations in different towns. Where I live, there are no refugees, and practically not even any foreigners. But in another part of town there's a district we call 'Little Istanbul' because so many foreigners live there. But we never see them - they go to school and come home. There's no integration, and they just end up isolated and mistrust grows between the communities.

"My wish is simply that there was more help for the refugees. I can't bring myself to look at the news at the moment. What's going on in Hungary, little children dying... I can't bear to turn on the TV to see that."