"Brussels, my love?" EU extends special status for Ukrainian refugees

Published connected 14/06/2025 - 7:19 GMT+2•Updated 16:17

In nan basking seat

This weekend, we are joined by nan Irish Senator Mark Duffy, nan Spanish/Dutch MEP Raquel García Hermida van der Walle and nan French MEP Fabrice Leggeri.

Dutch Government Collapse

The sheet talk really nan Dutch authorities collapsed owed to soul tensions wrong nan conjugation complete migration argumentation and squabbles surrounding a 10-point anti-migration scheme pushed by far-right politicians Geert Wilders.

Raquel García Hermida van der Walle said Wilders could not govern.

"He has done what he has been doing for nan past 20 years, which is utilizing migration arsenic an excuse to hide his ain party's aliases his ain ministers' incompetence and inability to present connected nan promises that they made to citizens", she said.

Fresh elections will return spot successful October.

Ukrainians Refugees successful nan EU

The sheet besides discussed nan millions of Ukrainians that unrecorded successful nan European Union today, 3 years aft Russia’s full-scale invasion. Thanks to nan EU's Temporary Protection Directive, they were fixed residency, entree to healthcare and education.

This week, astatine an EU Council gathering successful Luxembourg, nan 27 countries voiced their support for a connection to widen nan impermanent protection for nan much than 4 cardinal Ukrainians until 4 March 2027.

"It's a bully illustration of what refugees, existent refugees, are aliases should be", Fabrice Leggeri said.

Housing successful nan EU - Prices done nan roof?

Finally, nan sheet reflected connected nan acute lodging situation crossed Europe. According to Eurostat, location prices person gone up by 48% successful nan EU. In Ireland and Lithuania, it is moreover worse. Mayors from each crossed nan committee this week called for urgent EU action and a coordinated lodging strategy.

Senator Mark Duffy from nan West of Ireland said immoderate support 'from Europe' was very overmuch welcome.

"The regeneration grants were backed and supported by Brussels, and that has been a very affirmative involution and if we tin replicate that successful different areas to summation supply, past that is only a nett summation for everyone who is looking to lick this problem", he said.

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