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🧵 Follow the thread: 🇪🇺 Commission President @vonderleyen outlines assistance to 🇺🇦

Listen to today’s full speech here ⬇️
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Addressing the @Europarl_EN, @vonderleyen announced the #EU will activate the never before used Temporary Protection Directive to provide 🇺🇦 refugees “with a secure status & access to schools, medical care & work.”

What is the Temporary Protection Directive?

✅ Grants temporary protection to displaced non-EU nationals due to armed conflict, human rights violations, etc.

✅ Granted for min. 1 yr. & max. 3 yrs.

✅ Allocates refugees between MS by capacity

@vonderleyen also announced €500m in funding via the European Peace Facility (EPF) “to purchase and deliver military equipment” to support 🇺🇦 defenses.

EPF, a funding instrument outside the 🇪🇺 7-yr budget and under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), has two pillars:

1️⃣ Peace Support Operations

2️⃣ Assistance Measures

Read more here ⬇️
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@vonderleyen added: "we will now also match this by at least EUR 500 million from the 🇪🇺 budget to deal with the humanitarian consequences of this tragic war, both in the country and for the refugees." 🇺🇦