Czechia, Germany, and Poland Continue to Host the Highest Number of New Ukrainian Refugees in EU
The recent figures provided by the European Office for Statistics, Eurostat, have revealed that in February of this year, Germany granted a total of 25,125 temporary protection statuses for Ukrainian refugees, thus becoming the country that granted the most temporary protection so far. Such data also show that second place was taken by Poland with 24,905 temporary protection statuses, followed by the Czech Republic with 9,775 and Romania with 7,920. Based on the Eurostat report, compared to January 2023, the number of decisions granting temporary protection to Ukrainians in February fell in 19 of the 26 EU members. The biggest decreases during February were observed in Poland with -3,540 compared to January of this year. Next comes Germany with -3,080, the Czech Republic with -2,630 and Romania with -1,035. On the other hand, the most significant growth was recorded in Ireland and Finland with +540 and +520 respectively. As of February 28, the highest number of Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection was registered in Germany with 1,000,530 and Poland with 989,080. In addition, compared to the population of each EU member state, the highest ratios of Ukrainian citizens granted temporary protection per thousand people during February were recorded in Cyprus...