EU Weighs Future of Ukrainian Refugees as some Member States Harden Their Stance
More than 4 million Ukrainians remain covered as some member states seek tighter eligibility rules and long-term legal certainty stays unresolved.
- European ministers meet tomorrow to discuss renewing protections for more than 4 million Ukrainian refugees for a sixth time, though officials do not expect immediate decisions on their future legal status.
- Temporary protection measures require annual renewal, leaving millions of Ukrainians without long-term legal certainty. Council Human Rights Commissioner Michael Flaherty stated, "Long-term solutions are needed to allow Ukrainians to plan their futures," as Ukraine's 10% population loss could become permanent.
- Several countries intend to tighten temporary protection rules, potentially excluding men of military age from eligibility. Poland reportedly supports this proposal, which distinguishes regions of Ukraine as more or less dangerous when determining protection status.
- According to a Center for Economic Strategy survey, only 43% of refugees plan to return. Oksana Diakun, Ukraine's deputy head of mission to Europe, warned, "Without recovering our human capital, it will be difficult to achieve this goal of Ukraine in Europe."
- Marcin Walecki from the European Endowment for Democracy suggested focusing on "brain gain" from new skills acquired abroad. He added, "We could argue that Ukrainians have already made it to Europe. They're just waiting for Ukraine to eventually join them there.
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Refugees from Ukraine do not have to apply for asylum in EU member states. For men aged between 23 and 60, this could change next year. EU interior ministers are considering two proposals for whom the current protection regime should be extended.
The EU interior ministers seem to be discussing a change in Ukraine's refugee protection: men in a certain age group could be excluded in the future.
EU May Stop Sheltering Military-Age Ukrainian Men
European Union member states are weighing whether Ukrainian men of military age should be excluded from future extensions of the bloc’s temporary protection scheme for people fleeing the war with Russia. According to an internal Council of the EU document seen by Euractiv, one of the options under consideration would be to extend temporary protection while narrowing its eligibility criteria. The paper references “the exclusion of men of conscri…
Exclusion of Ukrainian men of conscription age from the extended temporary protection scheme, which, according to media reports, is considered in the European Union, is not an EU issue.
The Member States of the European Union are exploring the possibility that military-age Ukrainian men will no longer benefit from a future expansion of the protection scheme by the Community bloc, which has provided shelter for more than four million people in Ukraine who have fled Russia's invasion, writes Euractiv. The proposal was made in the discussions ...
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