{"id":470788,"date":"2026-11-10T16:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/11\/10\/sotto-la-protezione-temporanea-dellue-437-milioni-di-ucraini-a-settembre\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:16:16","slug":"4-37-million-ukrainians-were-under-the-eus-temporary-protection-scheme-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/11\/10\/4-37-million-ukrainians-were-under-the-eus-temporary-protection-scheme-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"4.37 million Ukrainians were under the EU\u2019s temporary protection scheme in September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 At the end of September, 4.37 million<\/a> citizens who have fled Ukraine \u2013 due to Russia\u2019s war of aggression \u2013 were granted temporary protection<\/a> in the EU. This was reported by Eurostat, the European Union\u2019s statistical office. Temporary protection is an exceptional procedure that offers immediate protection to displaced persons who are unable to return to their home countries due to war, violence, or human rights violations<\/strong>. The Agency points out that, compared with the end of August 2026, there were 61,055 fewer people registered, representing a 1.4 per cent decrease.\"\"<\/p>\n

The Member States hosting the largest number of beneficiaries include Germany<\/strong> (1,300,070 people; 29.7 per cent of the EU total), Poland<\/strong> (858,545; 19.6 per cent), and the Czech Republic <\/strong> (391,720; 9.0 per cent). Compared with the end of August<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>, the number rose in 25 of the 27 EU Member States<\/strong>. The three largest absolute increases were observed in Germany<\/strong> (+5,515; +0.4 per cent), in Romania<\/strong> (+3,900; +1.8 per cent), and in Italy <\/b>(+2,505; +4.4 per cent). Here, the total number of Ukrainian nationals rose from 56,535 at the end of August to 59,040 at the end of September. <\/strong>The most significant declines were seen in Poland<\/strong> (-80,850; -8.6 per cent) and in the Czech Republic<\/strong> (-6,640; -1.7 per cent). <\/p>\n

The highest rates in terms of the number of beneficiaries per thousand people were recorded in the Czech Republic<\/strong> (35.9), in Slovakia<\/strong> (28), and in Cyprus<\/strong> (27.4), while Italy stood at 1 and the EU average at 9.7. At the end of September 2026, Ukrainian nationals accounted for over 98.5 per cent of beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU. Of these, 44.1 per cent were women, 27.9 per cent were men, and 29 per cent were minors.<\/p>\n

The EU activated the Temporary Protection Directive<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> on 4 March 2022 by unanimous decision of the Member States, having recognised the existence of a massive influx of displaced persons from Ukraine as a result of Russia\u2019s war of aggression. <\/span><\/span><\/span>A first renewal was approved in October 2022<\/b>, extending the measure until March 2024, followed by the decision in September 2023 to grant a further extension until 4 March 2025<\/b>. The proposal to extend the protection further, until 4 March 2026, dates back to June 2024<\/b><\/a>, while on 13 June 2025 the European Council adopted the decision to extend temporary protection<\/b><\/a> for these people from 4 March 2026 to 4 March 2027.\u200b<\/span>\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic are the Member States hosting the largest number of beneficiaries. Between August and September 2026, Italy took in a further 2,505 people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":470766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"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","show_comment_section":"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":[29788],"tags":[35608,1311,27736,13125,28768,5929,537,5452],"class_list":["post-470788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diritti-en","tag-agenzia-di-statistica-dellunione-europea","tag-cyprus","tag-czechrepublic-en","tag-eurostat","tag-eurostat-data","tag-poland","tag-romania","tag-slovakia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470788","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\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470789,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470788\/revisions\/470789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}