According to the vice-president of the European Commission, Dubravka Suica, refugees from Ukraine scattered across Europe will not immediately return to their homeland, even after the end of the war. “Their schools were destroyed, their homes were destroyed, their jobs were lost,” Suica told the editorial network Germany today.
In their assessment, hosts such as Germany and Poland would have to be prepared to receive refugees from Ukraine for years after the end of the war. “I think we have to be prepared for that.”
A fundamental problem is that these families think they can go home the day after the war. “But they won’t go home then,” said Suica, vice-president of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography. “I have to say frankly, I experienced the war myself in Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia.”