{"id":133224,"date":"2024-08-23T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T04:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-executive-to-contact-budapest-over-eviction-of-ukrainian-refugees\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T04:35:50","slug":"eu-executive-to-contact-budapest-over-eviction-of-ukrainian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/eu-executive-to-contact-budapest-over-eviction-of-ukrainian-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"EU executive to contact Budapest over eviction of Ukrainian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133224\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe European Commission has said is &#8216;looking into&#8217; a new Hungarian law that cancels state-funded accommodation for refugees from parts of Ukraine that Budapest says are not directly affected by military action. The European Commission said today it was examining whether a Hungarian law withdrawing state-funded shelter from Ukrainian refugees from regions not directly impacted by the war is in line with EU asylum rules, while Budapest said it was targeting only those who are able but unwilling to work.<\/p>\n<p>Some 120 Ukrainian citizens, mainly women and children of Roma ethnicity, were evicted from a privately run shelter in the town of Kocs on Wednesday (21 August), the day a government decree took effect which limits eligibility for accommodation to people from regions \u2013 currently 13, in the east and south of Ukraine \u2013 not deemed to be active war zones. \u201cWe are aware of this decree and we are looking into it,\u201d Commission spokesperson on migration Anitta Hipper told reporters in Brussels today, adding: \u201cThe EU stands united in providing protection for all those fleeing Putin\u2019s bombs\u2026 and we\u2019ll ensure their protection as long as it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are currently some 4.2 million Ukrainians in the EU who have been accorded \u2018temporary protection\u2019 status under EU law. Some 46,000 of these are in Hungary, of which up to 3,000 could be affected by the change in Hungarian law, according to human rights groups. Governments in the EU Council activated the Temporary Protection Directive within a fortnight of the Russian invasion in February 2022, and recently extended its application to Ukrainian refugees, of which more are expected, to March 2026. \u201cThis means immediate protection and access to rights in the EU\u2026throughout all member states, including residency rights, but also access to the labour market, accommodation, social welfare, medical and other assistance,\u201d Hipper said.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission official would not comment on whether the EU executive is concerned Hungary might be contravening the directive. \u201cThis decree just entered into force, we need to be in touch with the Hungarian authorities, and this is where we are at this stage.\u201d Meanwhile, at a press conference in Budapest, Hungarian government minister Gergely Guly\u00e1s said the government decree was a response to some 4,000 people in state-funded shelters who refused to take jobs even when work was available. \u201cWe have paid out 10 billion forints (\u20ac25m) in one year to provide accommodation to people who are capable of work,\u201d said Guly\u00e1s. The measures put in place in Hungary were \u201centirely in line\u201d with those in Poland, Romania and Czechia, he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The minister, who is chief of staff to Hungarian premier Viktor Orb\u00e1n, went on to accuse \u201cSoros organisations\u201d \u2013 a reference to the billionaire US-Hungarian financier and philanthropist \u2013 of encouraging refugees to refuse to leave the premises in Kocs. In the end they were readmitted to spend a night under an outdoor shelter, while the owner of the hostel in which they had been staying provided mattresses for the children, according to Andr\u00e1s L\u00e9derer, head of advocacy for the human rights group the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, who was at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/08\/22\/eu-executive-to-contact-budapest-over-eviction-of-ukrainian-refugees\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/08\/22\/eu-executive-to-contact-budapest-over-eviction-of-ukrainian-refugees\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/eu-executive-to-contact-budapest-over-eviction-of-ukrainian-refugees\/\">EU executive to contact Budapest over eviction of Ukrainian refugees<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[4441,555,274,15807],"class_list":["post-133224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-budapest","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu","tag-eviction-of-ukrainian-refugees"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}