(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, MARCH 17 - A new tool to support Ukrainians fleeing the war to use around 10 billion euros already allocated by the cohesion policy for reception projects.
This is 'Care', an initiative approved last week by the EU heads of state and government and presented today by the EU Commissioner for Cohesion, Elisa Ferreira, at the opening of the eighth Cohesionforum.
"Through the new 'Care' initiative, we give cohesion programs" and therefore to Regions and local authorities "the flexibility to support refugees", explained Ferreira, highlighting that the discussion on cohesion policy is particularly "timely and necessary" at this moment. : "punctual because when we were emerging from a serious economic crisis we found ourselves in a security crisis right at our borders" and "necessary because cohesion is part of both short and long-term responses to these events".
"At a time when our Union must remain steadfast and unshakable, cohesion is the cement that holds the bricks of the European house together," added the Commissioner.
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