On Monday, the Council of the European Union unanimously agreed on a 10-point plan to support Ukrainian refugees and the EU countries hosting the majority of Ukrainian refugees who fled the country. This was stated by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and EU Commissioner for Home Affairs YIva Johansson following an extraordinary meeting of EU and Schengen interior ministers, Deutsche Welle reports.
The meeting took place in Brussels on Monday, 28 March. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denys Monastyrskyi also took part in it via video connection.
“The plan provides for setting up an EU platform for registration of all people arriving and applying for temporary protection,” Johansson explained the first item of the approved plan. Currently, this registration takes place only within each EU country, without the exchange of information between national systems.
The plan also envisages the development of anti-trafficking measures for Ukrainian refugees, Johansson said.
A separate item concerns the admission of children, in particular those who arrived in the European Union without adults. The EU Council has also decided to activate a special anti-crime platform.
According to the European Commissioner, the number of arrivals from Ukraine is going down. If on the peak days there were more than 200,000 people who escaped from Russia’s war against Ukraine, now this figure has dropped to 40,000 per day.
In total, 3.8 million Ukrainian refugees arrived in the European Union, half of them children, Johansson said.
YIva Johansson also said earlier that the European Union should create incentives for Ukrainians who came to Poland during the war to move to other EU countries.