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#Berlin: Welcoming the Ukrainian refugees. Judy Dempsey, STRATEGIC EUROPE, Carnegie.

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

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#Berlin: Welcoming the Ukrainian refugees. Judy Dempsey, STRATEGIC EUROPE, Carnegie.
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I'm John Batch, sir Judy Demsie, the editor-in-chief strategic Europe for the Carnegie Endowment

0:40.5

in Berlin, commenting recently about the refugee story in Europe. And this is a story that

0:47.9

is easy to overlook, given the violence and the tragedy of the Ukraine conflict. Internally

0:55.0

displaced is a big number. However, those people who have fled Poland, they young, the elderly,

1:02.4

the children, they are refugees in Europe that is an intransition always about energy,

1:08.5

about armaments, about Russia. But is there an agreement that the Ukrainian refugees

1:17.6

are well housed? Or are they increasingly facing the dislocations that was true in 2015

1:25.2

when people poured in from the Middle East? Is there a contrast or a similarity, Judy?

1:29.6

The similarity isn't terms of numbers. In fact, more Ukrainians than people fleeing

1:39.4

the war in Syria and Iraq have come to your particularly Poland and Germany and Ireland.

1:44.8

I mean, all over, but mostly Poland and Germany. The numbers are huge. And it's actually

1:51.3

ignored the 3 million displaced inside Ukraine. This is a conservative estimate. There's

1:56.8

millions, millions of displaced people in Ukraine trying to seek shelter, whether it's in

2:02.0

the bigger safe cities in the West. But in Europe, at the moment, when I think because

2:07.4

the Ukrainians, frankly, are considered European, so far, they have been given the best of

2:15.1

welcome, housing, education. The media is right to work, which is very important, and

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