Ukrainian refugees housed in collective accommodation in Poland will have to contribute to their living costs from Wednesday, if their residence in Poland extends over 120 days.
Poland's government adopted on Tuesday an amendment to a law on aid for Ukrainian citizens, tightening the system of benefits paid to war refugees and providing for them to cover part of the costs of collective accommodation.
Refugees living in collective accommodation will have to pay some their accommodation costs from next month, a deputy interior minister said on Monday.
Local governments from Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary have appealed to the European Committee of Regions to create a continental-wide database with accommodation and employment offers for Ukrainian war refugees.
Paweł Szefernaker, a Polish deputy interior minister, has argued that European countries should come up with an offer for Ukrainian refugees that would be similar to the Polish model of accommodating people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
With the war in Ukraine reaching its third week, over 1.2 million people have so far crossed the border into Poland. Some will remain in Poland for now, or move further towards other countries further west in Europe.
In another example of extraordinary support, after announcing its decision to help support refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Hotel Spichlerz in the picturesque town of Kazimierz Dolny is now working around the clock providing help for the mothers and children and even organising an animation workshop for the children.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the rapidly unfolding humanitarian crisis, Jakub Tryboń and his team from real estate firm TPPI SA – Murowana Inwestycja set to work renovating both properties and filling them with furniture, and appliances.
The number of tourists who used overnight accommodation in Poland between January and the end of May 2021 fell by almost half, from over 6 million last year to over 3 million, the central Statistical Office (GUS) has reported.
The number of foreign tourists who stayed overnight in Poland during the first half of 2018 increased by 6.3 pct to 15.1 mln from 14.2 mln a year earlier, according to Central Statistical Office (GUS) data released on Friday.
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