While 2.2 million refugees from Ukraine who have arrived in the EU since 24 February have applied for the Temporary Protection Directive, the European Commission told MEPs in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties on Wednesday 20 April that the platform for registering refugees and pooling Member States’ reception data, announced by interior ministers on 28 March, would not be ready until “the end of May”.
The platform is intended to help Member States and the...