China News Agency, Brussels, April 12 (Reporter De Yongjian) The European Council passed a legal amendment on the 12th, officially approving the allocation of 3.5 billion euros to EU member states this year to accommodate the influx of Ukrainian refugees.
The European Council issued a notice on the same day to inform the news.
At the end of March this year, the European Commission proposed legal amendments to revise the EU's "Cohesion and Regional Recovery Assistance Program" (REACT-EU) to provide additional funds to member states to host Ukrainian refugees. Approved.
According to the amendment, the EU will allocate a total of 3.5 billion euros to EU member states hosting Ukrainian refugees through the "Cohesion and Regional Recovery Assistance Program" fund this year, and the allocation of funds depends on the number of Ukrainian refugees in a country.
Specifically, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia, which border Ukraine, will become key aid targets. Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia and other countries have received more than 1% of the country’s total population of Ukrainian refugees from February to March. will receive the same assistance.
According to statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in early April, since Russia launched a special military operation against Ukraine at the end of February this year, about 4.3 million refugees have fled Ukraine, and most of them have poured into neighboring Ukraine such as Poland; WHO officials said that a large number of elderly refugees suffer There are chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure, and there are pregnant women who are in urgent need of prenatal care. The humanitarian needs of refugees are huge.
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