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EU help for Member States hosting Ukrainian children unsatisfactory, ECR Group says

The European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament believes that the EU Parliament is not doing enough to support Member States hosting Ukrainian children and young people.

A resolution adopted today in Strasbourg does not provide for additional financial support for Member States on the front line. The Conservatives had called for a separate financial instrument to be introduced that would allow for a quick and flexible transfer of funds to Member States hosting refugees from Ukraine, including for the purpose of integrating children and young people, especially with regard to their access to education and healthcare. Instead, the ECR Group now expects even greater burdens to be placed on states like Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary.

ECR Group shadow rapporteur Patryk Jaki said: “In general and most importantly, the resolution does not address the needs of Member States hosting refugees from Ukraine. Instead of supporting them financially, it imposes additional obligations and solutions on them that are in fact counterproductive.”

The ECR group also considers the mandatory monitoring of the refugee situation by EU experts and the demand for the protection of LGBT rights, which according to the conservatives have no place in a resolution on the protection of children, to be unnecessary.

However, the ECR Group was satisfied with the call for the establishment of humanitarian corridors for Ukrainian children in urgent need of assistance, such as orphans and disabled children, as well as the call for closer cooperation with the Ukrainian authorities to prevent child trafficking, illegal adoptions and other possible crimes against children.

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