As of November 30, 2024, 4 million 234.49 thousand non-EU citizens who left Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, had the status of temporary protection in the EU, which is 36.01 thousand, or 0.9%, more than a month earlier, Eurostat reports.
“The largest absolute increase in the number of beneficiaries was observed in Germany (+11,915; +1.0%), the Czech Republic (+5,820; +1.5%) and Poland (+4,045; +0.4%),” the agency said.
It is noted that the number of people under temporary protection in November decreased only in Italy (-1,270; -0.8%), France (-695; -1.2%) and Luxembourg (-15; -0.4%).
According to Eurostat, Germany remains the country with the largest number of refugees from Ukraine in the EU and the world by a growing margin – 1 million 152.62 thousand at the end of November, or 27.2% of the total number of beneficiaries in the EU.
The top three also includes Poland – 987.93 thousand, or 23.3%, and the Czech Republic – 385.19 thousand, or 9.1%.
Spain (224.29 thousand), Romania (177.61 thousand), and Italy (164.41 thousand) follow with a significant lag.
At the same time, Eurostat clarified that the data for Spain, Greece and Cyprus take into account some people whose temporary protection status is no longer valid.
According to the agency, compared to the population of each EU member state, the largest number of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people in November 2024 was observed in the Czech Republic (35.3), Poland (27.0), Latvia and Estonia (25.5 each), while the corresponding figure at the EU level is 9.4.
It is also reported that as of November 30, 2024, Ukrainian citizens accounted for more than 98.3% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection. Adult women accounted for almost half (44.9%) of temporary protection beneficiaries in the EU, children for almost a third (32.0%), while adult men accounted for less than a quarter (23.1%) of the total. A year earlier, the share of women was 46.3%, children 33.3% and adult men 20.4%.
More than 100 thousand people with temporary protection status at the end of November 2024 were also in Slovakia – 130.47 thousand, the Netherlands – 120.55 thousand and Ireland – 109.18 thousand.
Between 50 thousand and 100 thousand of them were in Belgium – 85.44 thousand, Austria – 84.60 thousand, Norway – 78.10 thousand, Finland – 68.78 thousand, Bulgaria – 67.54 thousand, Switzerland – 67.45 thousand, Portugal – 64.78 thousand and France – 59.13 thousand (data on children are mostly not included – Eurostat).
This is followed by Lithuania – 48.01 thousand, Latvia – 47.65 thousand, Sweden – 46.00 thousand, Denmark – 38.92 thousand, Hungary – 38.89 thousand, Greece – 32.37 thousand, Estonia – 35.12 thousand, Croatia – 25.81 thousand, Cyprus – 22.09 thousand, Iceland – 3.97 thousand, Luxembourg – 3.84 thousand, Malta – 2.20 thousand and Liechtenstein – 0.70 thousand.
Eurostat clarified that all the above data relate to the granting of temporary protection on the basis of EU Council Decision 2022/382 of March 4, 2022, which establishes the existence of a massive influx of displaced persons from Ukraine due to Russia’s military invasion and entails the introduction of temporary protection. On June 25, 2024, the European Council decided to extend temporary protection for these persons from March 4, 2025 to March 4, 2026.
According to updated UNHCR data, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Europe as of January 16, 2025, was estimated at 6.303 million, and 6.863 million worldwide, which is 49 thousand more than as of December 16.
In Ukraine itself, according to the latest UN data, there are 3.6 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), while approximately 160,000 people were displaced from the frontline areas in the east and south between May and October 2024 due to the intensification of hostilities.
As Deputy Minister of Economy Serhiy Sobolev noted in early March 2023, the return of every 100,000 Ukrainians home results in a 0.5% increase in GDP. At the same time, in its October inflation report, the National Bank again downgraded its forecast for the outflow from Ukraine in 2024 from 0.4 million to 0.5 million. At the same time, the outflow estimate for 2025 was lowered from 0.3 million to 0.2 million.
In the report, the National Bank confirmed its expectation that Ukrainians will start returning home in 2026, but lowered its net inflow forecast to 0.2 million from 0.4 million.
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“Transportlux Ukraine” invested about UAH 40 million in the construction of a bioethanol production plant in Raigorodka community (Zhytomyr region), said the head of Zhytomyr regional military organization Vitaliy Bunechko.
“The peculiarity of the production is that it responds to several challenges at once. This is the production of bioethanol, which from May this year should make up at least 5% of automobile fuel in Ukraine. So its own capacity for its production will allow not to spend extra money on exports, but to support domestic producers and the economy,” he wrote in Telegram.
Bunechko specified that the main raw material for the plant is food industry waste: animal fat, in particular from chicken farms, waste from vegetable oil production and others. Accordingly, another important problem is being solved – waste recycling.
“The plant is being built using advanced technologies and will help reduce dependence on traditional energy resources, create new jobs and contribute to the development of the region’s economy,” emphasized the head of Zhytomyr OVA.
According to regional media, the plant produced the first liter of biodiesel on Friday. They referred to the words of the investor, Moldovan citizen Mihail Popu, who expressed hope that biodiesel production will be part of the long-term strategy of energy independence of the region and will improve the social component of the community, where new jobs will be created and farmers will be able to sell oilseeds at more favorable conditions.
The investor added that the company intends to increase production in order to meet the demand for fuel not only in the community, but also to establish exports.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyy said that this year in Ukraine should again work several airports, because “there are technical and other opportunities for this,” however, did not specify which airports we are talking about, reports Lviv media hub “Your Misto”.
“It is unambiguous that this year in Ukraine will start working several airports. There are technical and other opportunities for this. There must be a political decision. Apparently, it will be,” – said in an interview Sadovy.
Sadovyi added that “if a country is present on the aviation map, it is in principle present on the map of the world. This is a matter of security of our state.”
The mayor cited the example of Israel, where “once made a political decision that during the war the airport of Tel Aviv began to work – it was the only bridge connecting Tel Aviv with the world.”
As reported in November 2024, Marsh McLennan senior partner Crispin Ellison said at the 10th Kiev International Forum (KMEF) that flights at one of Ukraine’s airports – Lviv or Boryspil – will resume by the end of January 2025.
Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories with the support of the US Embassy has developed a roadmap for opening the airspace of Ukraine under martial law.
The possibility of submitting documents for the contest for the post of the new head of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine (BES) has been closed, the head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, has said.
“I do not see the whole list of applicants, but I know that there are worthy among them. I am very glad that veterans and military men applied. People who sacrificed their lives for the country will be able to defend its interests in the rear,” Getmantsev noted in his telegram channel on Saturday.
As his first deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak added, more than 40 applications were submitted for the contest, but the final results will be made public on Monday, January 27.
According to him, the next steps will be to check the compliance of submitted documents and six stages of the competition, including: testing of general skills, testing for knowledge of legislation, practical tasks, assessment of personal competencies, testing for integrity, as well as the final interview.
Up to 60 candidates with the highest scores will be admitted to the stage of general skills testing, while fewer applicants – up to 40 – will be able to pass practical tasks. Up to 20 candidates with the highest scores will be admitted to the final interview.
“Compare this approach in our law, to the profanation of how the OP usually in a couple of hours appoints their loyalists to positions they learn about from the news,” – summarized Zheleznyak.
As reported, on October 4, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the composition of the commission on the competition for the position of Director of the BEB, which included: Deputy Chief Academic Secretary – Head of the Department of Strategic Development of the National Academy of Legal Sciences Oleg Hilyaka, Professor of the Department of Financial and Tax Law of the State Tax University Tatyana Matzelik, Head of the Department of Criminal Law of the National Law University named after Yaroslav the Wise Yuri Ponomarenko.
In addition, the commission on proposals from international and foreign organizations included: founder and executive director of the Foundation for Integrity and Asylum, founder and executive director/senior consultant of The Wasserstrorri Group James Wasserstrom, head of the Lithuanian Police Liaison Office at the European Police Force, corruption prevention expert of the EU4IBMResilience project, Donatas Malaskevicius, founder and executive director of the Expert Forum (EFOR), an international expert on the prevention of corruption in Ukraine.
This competition is held within the framework of the Law No. 10439 adopted by the Rada on June 29, 2024 on the reset of the Office, which provides for a competitive selection of the new director with the participation of experts delegated by international partners, as well as certification of the Office’s employees within one year after the appointment of the new director.
On January 31, Kyiv will host Grain Storage Forum, the largest agricultural forum in Ukraine dedicated to storage, processing, logistics and trading of agricultural products.
Organizers: Ukrainian Grain Association, PU “Millers of Ukraine”, Association of Elevators of Ukraine, Bioenergy Association of Ukraine, Agro Marketing Agency, Solar Energy Association of Ukraine, ProAgro Group.
Venue: 16a Parkova Road, Kyiv, CEC “Parkovy”.
The purpose of the forum isto analyze the current state of the industry, identify key problems, develop solutions for stable operation and increase the efficiency of agricultural production, processing, trading and logistics in wartime.
The forum will include:
– 4 conferences:
– Ukrainian Grain Conference
– Conference “Agro-processing: financing and investments”
– Conference “Agro-energy security and agro-energy efficiency”
– Conference “Grain storage and drying”
– Presentation seminars from market leaders;
– Speeches by leading industry experts with cases of effective agribusiness, government officials and experts;
– Exhibition of technological solutions and equipment from leading manufacturers;
– Lounge area, area for business communication;
– Coffee breaks, receptions, live music.
For more information, please visit the official website: https://grain-forum-elevator.com
For partnership and participation in the exhibition, please contact the organizers: +38 096 899 4272 | +38 067 243 3803 | proagro-inform@ukr.net
After a short period of stability, selling prices for potatoes in Ukraine have started to grow again, analysts of the EastFruit project report. The main reason for another rise in prices in this segment, according to experts, was a general reduction in the supply of potatoes in local farms. The fact is that many Ukrainian producers, who do not have capacity for long-term storage, finished selling potatoes in the first half of the current season.
This situation has already affected prices, which since the beginning of this week have risen to 20-30 UAH/kg ($ 0.48-0.71/kg), which is on average 12% higher than at the end of the last working week. It should be noted that representatives of wholesale companies complain about the lack of necessary volumes of quality potatoes in local farms. Farmers, in turn, attribute potato quality problems to unfavorable weather conditions during the harvesting period: prolonged rains had a negative impact not only on the marketable form of potatoes, but also on their storability. Also, according to producers, in 2024, many of them used planting material not of the highest quality.
Prices for potatoes in Ukraine today on average 16% higher than at the end of January last year. Moreover, many market players believe that in the near future the rate of appreciation of these products will noticeably accelerate, “fueled” by information about a possible shortage of quality potatoes in the Ukrainian market.
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