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 (1.1) and the Czech Republic (0.9).

During the same period, among the European countries that granted the most temporary protection statuses for Ukrainian children under the age of 18 is again Germany with a total of 7,725 representing 31 per cent of the Ukrainians who were granted protection in this country, followed by Poland (6,070, 24 per cent), Romania (2,590, 33 per cent) and the Czech Republic (2,550, 26 per cent).

Furthermore, Eurostat’s figures also revealed that in January of this year, Eurostat has revealed that in the first place for granting the most temporary protections to Ukrainians was Poland with a total of 28,445 protection statuses.

According to Eurostat, Germany ranks second after Poland with 28,205 protection statuses, followed by Romania with 8,955 and Spain with 4,250.

The same source pointed out that compared to December 2022, the number of temporary protection statuses granted in January 2023 fell to 21 of the 25 EU members.

As for the decreases during January, the most were observed in Poland with -3,415 compared to December last year, followed by Romania with -2,305, Italy and Ireland both -2,000, while the biggest increase was recorded in Germany with +3,095.