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Germany wants additional EU funds for refugee intake

by AI | 28.Jun 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Some EU countries are taking in significantly more Ukrainian refugees than others. Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic are now demanding additional support for this.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (r) speaks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (l) during a round table at an EU summit. Photo: Olivier Hoslet/Pool EPA/AP/dpa

Brussels – Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic are seeking additional funds from the EU for the accommodation and integration of Ukrainian refugees. The three countries have taken in more than half of the Ukrainian asylum seekers who have entered the EU, argue German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in a joint letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which was obtained by the German Press Agency.

“The capacities of our countries are overburdened,” it says. The burden of taking in refugees is not shared fairly. Additional significant financial support from the EU budget is “necessary for the particularly affected member states to adequately cover the costs of receiving, accommodating, and caring for refugees from Ukraine.”

Scholz emphasized in a statement that if other EU countries were less involved in taking in refugees, the few receiving countries must be particularly financially supported. “I have also written this to the Commission President together with my colleagues from Poland and the Czech Republic, and we will want to discuss this as well.” (June 27)