Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski calls on EU countries to stop social payments to Ukrainians in exchange for learning the language of these countries.
Radosław Sikorski is confident that this will help both the EU and Ukraine.
Stop these payments to people subject to conscription. There should be no payments for avoiding military service, he added at a panel discussion during the annual Yalta European Strategy (YES) meeting. According to the minister, the current policy of many EU capitals harms Ukraine’s defense capability and economic stability, since it offers economic preferences to men of mobilization age.
Sikorsky called on Western European countries to reconsider their approaches to helping Ukrainian men in order to encourage their return to Ukraine.
Currently, Ukrainians in Germany who are under temporary protection receive significant assistance. We are talking about payments exceeding 500 euros, and together with housing compensation, we can talk about more than 1 thousand dollars per month per person, and this also applies to men.
Something in the Netherlands, I don’t know for sure the amount in France. There is a simple way to help Ukraine – stop providing assistance to Ukrainians subject to mobilization. Concealment from conscription is not a reason for financial assistance. Just stop paying them, – Sikorski said, noting that Poland does not provide such social support.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga, who spoke alongside Sikorski at the panel discussion, agreed with his Polish counterpart and expressed support for the proposal.
Source: Racurs
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