{"id":684896,"date":"2026-07-10T20:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684896\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:56:16","slug":"4-38-million-under-temporary-protection-in-may-2026-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684896\/","title":{"rendered":"4.38 million under temporary protection in May 2026 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">On 31 May 2026, a total of 4.38 million non-<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> citizens who fled Ukraine had <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/home-affairs.ec.europa.eu\/policies\/migration-and-asylum\/asylum-eu\/temporary-protection_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">temporary protection<\/a> status in the EU. Compared with the end of April 2026, the number of people from Ukraine under temporary protection increased by 7 795 (+0.2%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The EU countries hosting the highest number of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine were Germany (1 283 270 people; 29.3% of the EU total), Poland (967 505; 22.1%) and Spain (267 400; 6.1%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The number of people under temporary protection increased in 22 out of the 26 countries with available data, with the 3 largest absolute increases observed in Italy (+6 250; +15.3%), Germany (+3 610; +0.3%) and Spain (+2 295; +0.9%). Among the 4 EU countries that registered decreases, the largest were recorded in Bulgaria (-12 345; -14.8%), Poland (-3 750; -0.4%) and France (-665; -1.3%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/may_2026_alt_v2-100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine and were under temporary protection in May 2026. Map - Click below to see full dataset.\" data-fileentryid=\"23970401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/May_2026_ALT_V2-100.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source datasets: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/51806b18-3bac-41d4-b6c1-cea81ef820e6?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2026-05-05T12:48:04Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">migr_asytpsm<\/a> and <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/6833ef45-e38b-4b3f-aeea-06fee2759343?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2026-05-05T12:48:46Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">migr_asytpspop<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The highest ratios of temporary protection beneficiaries per thousand people were observed in Slovakia at 26.8, Poland (26.5) and Cyprus (25.9), compared with 9.7 at EU level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">On 31 May 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 26.8%, and minors almost one-third (29.8%) of all beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The data presented in this article refer to the attribution of temporary protection status based on the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?uri=celex:32022D0382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">On 13 June 2025, the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2025\/06\/13\/eu-member-states-agree-to-extend-temporary-protection-for-refugees-from-ukraine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 31 May 2026, a total of 4.38 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine had temporary protection status&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,4535,1294,4537,56,157,54,55],"class_list":["post-684896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-population-and-social-conditions","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}