On Tuesday 29 March, the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) discussed the situation of refugee women and children from Ukraine with the Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson, who reminded them that out of the 3.8 million people who have so far arrived in the EU, “a half are children”.
In the aftermath of the meeting of EU interior ministers, which took stock of the refugee situation in Member States, MEPs on the FEMM Committee wanted...