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Some 50,000 Ukrainians are fleeing the country on a daily basis, down from around 200,000 a few weeks ago, says the EU commission. (Photo: European Union, 2022)

EU index identifies Poland, Austria as needing refugee aid

The European Commission is gauging the pressure on member states hosting refugees as tens of thousands of people continue to cross daily from Ukraine.

The plan is to use an index to help determine "fair burden-sharing" to manage the roughly 3.6 million refugees who have already settled throughout most EU states. Of those, more than 1.5 million are children.

With many more set to come, the commission says there is a need to figure out how many are settling in each EU state, in cas...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Some 50,000 Ukrainians are fleeing the country on a daily basis, down from around 200,000 a few weeks ago, says the EU commission. (Photo: European Union, 2022)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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