{"id":1017239,"date":"2026-06-10T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1017239\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:30:28","slug":"4-37-million-under-temporary-protection-in-april-2026-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1017239\/","title":{"rendered":"4.37 million under temporary protection in April 2026 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 30 April 2026, a total of 4.37 million non-EU<\/a> citizens who fled Ukraine had temporary protection<\/a> status in the EU. Compared with the end of March 2026, the total number of people from Ukraine under temporary protection increased by 42 990 (+1.0%).<\/p>\n

The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 279 660 people; 29.3% of the EU total), Poland (971 255; 22.2%) and Czechia (384 435; 8.8%).<\/p>\n

The number of people under temporary protection increased in 24 EU countries and decreased in 3. The largest absolute increases were observed in Poland (+9 850; +1.0%), Italy (+7 020; +20.8%) and Germany (+4 705; +0.4%). The largest decreases were recorded in France (-440; -0.9%) and Ireland (-125; -0.1%).<\/p>\n

\"Temporary<\/a><\/p>\n

Source datasets: migr_asytpsm<\/a> and migr_asytpspop<\/a><\/p>\n

The highest ratios of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Czechia at 35.2, Poland (26.6) and Slovakia (26.5), compared with 9.7 at EU level.<\/p>\n

On 30 April 2026, Ukrainian citizens represented over 98.5% of the beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Adult women made up 43.4% of the total, adult men 26.7%, and minors almost one-third (29.9%) of all beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

The data presented in this article refer to the attribution of temporary protection status based on the Council Implementing Decision 2022\/382 of 4 March 2022<\/a>, which recognises the existence of a mass influx of displaced persons from Ukraine due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, and introduces temporary protection.<\/p>\n

On 13 June 2025, the European Council adopted the decision to extend the temporary protection<\/a> for these people from 4 March 2026 to 4 March 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 30 April 2026, a total of 4.37 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine had temporary protection status…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1017240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5108,64410,2000,299,5187,120044,120045,64411,657,120046],"class_list":["post-1017239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-asylum","tag-data-driven-news","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-migr","tag-migr_child","tag-population-and-social-conditions","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-population"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116725116250511843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}