Poland plans to abolish social assistance for Ukrainian refugees starting in the first quarter of next year – a government spokesman hopes that “there will simply be no need to continue it.”
Government spokesman Peter Muller said this in an interview with RAP.
The publication notes that, according to local polls, the majority of Poles oppose the continuation of financial assistance to Ukrainian citizens currently living in Poland. Mueller emphasized that all decisions on social assistance made after the outbreak of war were temporary.
“The decisions that were made after the war started are temporary, and that’s all I can say,” he said.
Mueller emphasized that the period when Ukrainians fled to Poland en masse is over.
“That’s why these decisions are gradually losing their force, the act states that they will not be extended,” the spokesman explained.
He hopes that “there will simply be no need to extend” social assistance, and when asked if there will be a further need for it, he said that he “thinks there will not be.”
- Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said that relations with Ukraine have now entered a “period of decline,” which is how he explained his absence from the meeting of EU foreign ministers.
