The EU Commission has made it clear that the several million war refugees from Ukraine should be provided for quickly and comprehensively in terms of work, education and accommodation.
Brussels – The Brussels authority presented measures on Wednesday that EU countries should support this. “We must quickly put all declarations of solidarity into practice,” said EU Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson. The EU Commission is particularly focused on children, who are estimated to make up around half of the refugees.
Shortly after the beginning of the Russian attack decided on Ukraine to take in the refugees quickly and easily. Among other things, they should have the right to work, housing, health care and education.
The EU Commission wants to support the implementation of all of this. For example, Ukrainian teaching material is to be made available online on an EU education platform. “Children from Ukraine should be able to go to school immediately,” emphasized EU Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas.
Refugees who urgently need special hospital treatment should be able to be brought quickly from one EU country to another via a solidarity mechanism. 10,000 hospital beds are ready.
With regard to access to work, the EU Commission wants to set up a talent pool as a pilot project to match vacancies with the qualifications of job seekers. New guidelines should also help to recognize professional qualifications from Ukraine. A new solidarity platform is intended to help with the distribution of refugees across the EU countries and beyond. Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) recently called for a fair distribution of people throughout the EU.
To finance refugee care, the EU Commission proposed on Wednesday to bring forward the payment of a further 3.4 billion euros from the so-called React-EU package, which is actually intended to deal with the Corona crisis is intended.
Negotiations remain complicated
Talks between Ukraine and Russia about an end to hostilities are complicated, according to both sides. “Negotiations are quite difficult because the Ukrainian side takes clear and fundamental positions,” Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podoliak said on Wednesday, according to local media. Head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyj has repeatedly made the key issues clear. Moscow also spoke of sluggish negotiations. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed the US was doing everything it could to delay the talks.
Ukraine is demanding an end to the fighting and a withdrawal of Russian troops. Moscow is demanding that Kyiv recognize the separatist areas in the east of the country, Luhansk and Donetsk, as independent states, as well as Russian rule over the annexed Crimean Peninsula. The delegations met several times in person in neighboring Belarus. Negotiations are now taking place in video conferences. (dpa)
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