{"id":429954,"date":"2025-06-17T18:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/17\/ue-roaming-ucraina-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:11:53","slug":"brussels-to-extend-roaming-to-ukraine-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/17\/brussels-to-extend-roaming-to-ukraine-from-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels to extend roaming to Ukraine from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Soon, the more than four\u00a0million Ukrainian refugees in member countries will be able to make calls, send texts, and use their mobile data from national phone numbers at no extra cost across the EU.\u00a0The European Commission\u00a0has proposed<\/a>\u00a0today (June 17) to integrate Ukraine into the Union’s roaming area as of January 2026.<\/span>\u00a0“We want Ukrainian citizens to be able to stay in touch with their loved ones throughout the EU<\/strong>, as well as in their home country,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In practice, this means that Ukrainian citizens in the EU, and vice versa,\u00a0will incur<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0no additional roaming charges<\/strong>. The use of all mobile services, including calls, SMS and data, will be charged at domestic rates.\u00a0The agreement also guarantees consumers the right to the\u00a0same mobile network quality and speed as they have at home, as well as<\/strong>\u00a0free access to emergency services<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0The ‘Roam like at Home’ scheme is valid in all EU member states, plus the three in the European Economic Area, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.<\/p>\n

“We propose that Ukraine becomes part of our roaming family. We reiterate once again our continued commitment to Ukraine and its citizens,” von der Leyen insisted.\u00a0In view of the progressive\u00a0integration<\/a>\u00a0of Ukraine<\/span>\u00a0as an EU candidate country, roaming is the first area in which Brussels will extend its internal market treatment to Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The current agreement between the EU and Ukrainian telecom operators will be extended until 31 December 2025. This will ensure that European and Ukrainian citizens can continue to enjoy the benefits of the common roaming area until Ukraine actually joins the EU roaming area. The proposal is now in the hands of the EU Council for approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian citizens in the EU, and vice versa, will pay no additional charges for using all mobile services, including calls, SMS, and data. The EU roaming area includes the 27 member countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710],"tags":[27172,31517,30548],"class_list":["post-429954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net-tech-en","tag-digital-en","tag-roaming-en-2","tag-ukraine-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429965,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429954\/revisions\/429965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}