“We are working on the declaration of solidarity between the member states: for now we have 13 countries who say they are ready for relocation immediately, with over 80 thousand relocations already agreed and others ready for financial aid. For me this is a good result. “This was stated by Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs at the meeting of European Interior Ministers in Prague, explaining that the first relocations will take place already this month.
“For years we have failed to make progress and now, with the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II, we have come to this,” he added. “The idea is to see how the voluntary phase proceeds in order to arrive at the new immigration regulation”.
The number of Ukrainian refugees present within the European Union fluctuates “between 3.2 and 3.7 million“, said Johansson. The uncertainty is due to the overlapping calculations between those who crossed the border with the EU but did not request temporary protection and those who requested it but then returned to Ukraine. If you look at the number of refugees per capita the Czech Republic leads, followed by Poland and Lithuania.
Johansson warned about arms trafficking: “We have some indications that the arms trafficking is ongoing but, above all, we know from experience that smuggling takes place during or after a war: there are many weapons in Ukraine and not all of them are always in the right hands “, he stressed.” The UN has warned us that there may be also new entry routes for the traffic of drug“.” We will launch a ‘security hub’ in Chisinau, “he added.
Source: Ansa
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