The war in Ukraine has forcefully entered the agenda of development cooperation policies. Ukraine received 8% of all global aid from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donor countries in 2022.

A third of the development aid that Spain gave in the last year went to care for refugees in Spanish territory, something worrying. Spain remains the 20th donor country in its ODA relative to its wealth in terms of Gross National Income, quite far from its commitments. The first chapter of refugee aid is based on two very temporary elements, such as the expenditure applied to the covidemic pandemic together with the attention paid to refugees on Spanish soil.