Temporary protection directive

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

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The EU Temporary Protection Directive enables EU Member States to move rapidly to offer protection and rights to people in need of immediate protection and to avoid overwhelming national asylum systems in cases of mass arrivals of displaced persons. Although invoked several times in the past, the directive has never been activated before. Russia's military aggression prompted a unanimous decision in the Council to grant temporary protection (for an initial period of one year) to people fleeing the war in Ukraine. This temporary protection may be extended automatically by two six-monthly periods, for a maximum of another year. The EU's decision to grant temporary protection has been widely welcomed and the directive is considered the most appropriate instrument under the current exceptional circumstances. There are, however, still many open questions as to its practical implementation in the EU Member States.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the European Parliamentary Research Service podcasts.
0:06.0	In this podcast, we'll talk about the temporary protection directive activated by the EU
0:12.0	to allow its member states to deal with the millions of Ukrainian citizens seeking refuge from the war in their country.
0:19.0	Want to know more? Stay with us.
0:28.0	Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022,
0:32.1	about 4 million people have been forced to seek refuge,
0:39.5	mostly neighboring countries such as Poland, Romania, Moldova, Hungary and Slovakia, and many more have been internally displaced.
0:42.2	The images of families arriving at the EU borders, confused, cold and Hungary, have immediately
0:48.1	prompted a wave of solidarity and popular support in Europe.
0:52.2	To help them as quickly and efficiently as possible,
0:55.0	the European Union took an unprecedented decision
0:57.9	to grant temporary protection to people arriving from Ukraine.
1:02.4	Let's hear the words of the French Minister of the Interior,
1:05.4	Gerald Darmannan,
1:06.8	and the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ilva Johanssen,
1:10.5	after the Justice and Home Affairs
1:12.2	Council of the 3rd of March.
1:15.5	We reached an agreement, a historic agreement, I would say, that will allow EU member states
1:20.7	to offer temporary protection to those fleeing war in Ukraine, given the massive influx of people that we've seen, and we'll continue
1:31.4	to see in the coming days.
1:34.6	I think this is a real great day when we managed to have a unanimous decision on the temporary
1:42.1	protection directive.
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