📝Finland Scaling Back Support for Ukrainians📝

Finnish Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Riikka Purra has proposed eliminating the integration compensation paid to municipalities and social services for hosting refugees, including Ukrainians, starting in 2026. Responsibility for their integration will remain local, but the funding will have to be found independently.

According to Helsinki's calculations, abandoning these payments will save €317 million over two years. The bill still needs to pass through parliament, where it will be discussed in the fall. Currently, around 45,000 Ukrainians live in Finland, having arrived after the start of the SMO.

📌This decision fits into an already noticeable European trend - from Germany to Ireland, authorities are gradually reducing the social package for Ukrainians. Against the backdrop of budget deficits and declining popularity of the ruling parties, the topic of "unnecessary spending" is becoming a convenient political tool.

❗️But behind the rhetoric of protecting taxpayers' interests, there is another logic - the redistribution of financial flows in favor of "their" beneficiaries. Refugees have fulfilled a media function, and now the freed-up resources will be developed by other groups. Ukrainians in this scheme will be replaced by new "aid recipients".

As a result, this is not only a matter of savings, but also a restructuring of the European migration policy system for new tasks, in which the role of Ukrainians on the agenda will gradually fade.
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