Can displaced persons from Ukraine freely move within the EU?

Brussels: A new brochure of the European Commission helps to understand whether displaced persons from Ukraine can freely move in the EU as EU workers do. The brochure has a specific focus on measures affecting employment and social security rights.

The European Commission has just published a brochure called ‘The labour mobility rights of displaced persons from Ukraine’ which focus on employment and social security rights of displaced persons from Ukraine.

The brochure highlights examples of temporary protection (TP) of people displaced from Ukraines and how they are implemented in different EU countries as in Bulgaria and Czechia.

Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 triggered an influx of displaced persons from Ukraine seeking safety, protection and security in the European Union.

Well over 4 million people displaced from Ukraine (4.16 million) currently enjoy temporary protection in the EU.

Dealing with displaced persons in such large numbers, currently around 1.04 million in Germany, 953 000 in Poland and 385 000 in Czechia, constitutes a major challenge for the EU, and for the individual Member States.