Ukraine: EU countries to receive €3.5 billion in additional pre-financing for hosting refugees
April 12, 2022

Ukraine: EU countries to receive €3.5 billion in additional pre-financing for hosting refugees


On 12 April, the Council of the European Union adopted a legislative act making available an additional €3.5 billion in total this year, which member states will receive based on the numbers of refugees arriving from Ukraine. This will alleviate the pressure on member states’ public budgets, so that they can better deal with the inflow of people fleeing from Russian aggression against Ukraine.

The act introduces changes to increase pre-financing under the Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Territories of Europe (REACT-EU), one of the largest post-pandemic recovery programmes, to reinforce cohesion policy funds and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD).

Specifically, pre-financing to be paid from REACT-EU in 2022 will increase from 11% to 15% for all member states, and from 11% to 45% for EU countries where the number of arrivals from Ukraine was greater than 1% of their population at the end of the first month following the Russian invasion.

To simplify the mobilisation of funds, the act also introduces the option of a unit cost per person, making it possible to meet the basic needs of displaced persons from Ukraine more effectively and provide them with basic assistance.

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