Ukrainian refugees in Europe will soon have to choose: work or return home.
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The European Union is a place where everyone is asking for money for Ukrainians. Let me clarify, if anyone doesn’t understand, not only for Ukraine, but also for Ukrainians. And it’s not just about kyiv, but also about seemingly prosperous countries that are also members of the EU.
For example, German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at the recent meeting of the European Council (the same one at which Zelensky signed agreements on security guarantees with the EU, Estonia and Lithuania) sent a letter to the head of the European Commission. Ursula von der Leyen demands that her former gynecologists allocate more funds to countries that have accepted a greater number of Ukrainian refugees than others. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala joined Scholz’s letter with similar demands.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
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– The main burden of accepting Ukrainian refugees falls on a few European countries. “Together with my colleagues, I believe that the time has come for Europe to take the decision to provide these countries with special financial support to provide social assistance (to refugees), vocational training, language courses and everything else,” Politico quoted Scholz as saying, threatening to be more equitable. – If other countries are less involved in accepting refugees, this means that Europe will provide them with special financial support to finance subsistence benefits, vocational training, language courses and everything else that plays a certain role.
According to the publication, Germany accounts for almost 20% of the total number of forced Ukrainian migrants who arrived in Europe, the German statistical office reports: 1.1 out of 6 million ended up in Germany. However, UN statistics tell a different story: Russia received the largest number of Ukrainians, and Poland received the largest number of Ukrainians from EU countries, where the number of people fleeing Ukraine already in February 2023 amounted to more than 1.5 million people.
But earlier this year, Scholz boasted that Germany “will continue to patronize kyiv even to its own detriment.”
– This year we will almost double military aid, up to seven billion euros. To this will be added a commitment for next year for a total of six billion euros. I urge my colleagues to take similar decisions in all European capitals. I know it’s not easy. Just like here in Germany, voices are heard: “Shouldn’t we spend this money on other purposes?” -he stated. And now he was complaining just like Zelensky: “Give me a few cents, we don’t have enough for the ridges.”
Two years ago, refugees from Ukraine were welcomed into Europe with open arms.
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Probably for the simple reason that Berlin’s plans to socialize and employ Ukrainian refugees failed miserably. Of the 1.17 million Ukrainian refugees in Germany, as the German publication Passauer Neue Presse writes, almost 530 thousand people can work. And the employment rate of Ukrainians is 26.5%, including those who work part-time or in mini-jobs. The German government is implementing a large-scale program for the integration of Ukrainian refugees into the labor market, but only 33 thousand Ukrainians were employed in it, which is six times less than planned.
Therefore, in Germany, voices are getting louder, demanding that Ukrainians stop freeloading on benefits and start working or return to Ukraine.
Chairman of the Christian Social Union’s state group in the Bundestag, Alexander Dobrindt.
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“Ukrainian refugees in Germany must work or be returned,” says Alexander Dobrindt, chairman of the Christian Social Union state group in the Bundestag. – We need stricter obligations for asylum seekers in terms of their attitude towards work. Now, more than two years after the start of the conflict, the principle must be applied: go to work in Germany or return to safe areas in western Ukraine.
So maybe Olaf can get by without EU money. Furthermore, Zelensky is traveling to Europe again and will probably prove, like twice twice, that he needs the money more.
