The war in Ukraine has resulted in an increase of Refugees to Eastern European nations in the last year
Sweden, Cyprus, Malta, Greece, and Germany lead the European Union in asylum seekers taken in.
On the 8th of June Council of the European Union agreed to reforms of European migration policy. One of the proposed changes is a new solidarity mechanism to relieve countries that receive the most asylum applications. Currently, asylum seekers are distributed very unequally across the EU, as shown in this week’s visualization.
As a share of their populations, states such as Sweden, Cyprus, Malta, Greece, and Germany have accommodated far more asylum seekers than other parts of the European Union. With the war in Ukraine, the share of refugees in Eastern European member states has risen compared to relatively low levels before 2022. But given the demands placed on countries to their east and north, countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain and France still accommodate relatively few refugees.
Clear and effective reforms to EU migration policy can ensure that the European Union lives up to its shared challenges by facing them together. Source: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
The war in Ukraine has resulted in an increase of Refugees to Eastern European nations in the last year
Sweden, Cyprus, Malta, Greece, and Germany lead the European Union in asylum seekers taken in.
On the 8th of June Council of the European Union agreed to reforms of European migration policy. One of the proposed changes is a new solidarity mechanism to relieve countries that receive the most asylum applications. Currently, asylum seekers are distributed very unequally across the EU, as shown in this week’s visualization.
As a share of their populations, states such as Sweden, Cyprus, Malta, Greece, and Germany have accommodated far more asylum seekers than other parts of the European Union. With the war in Ukraine, the share of refugees in Eastern European member states has risen compared to relatively low levels before 2022. But given the demands placed on countries to their east and north, countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain and France still accommodate relatively few refugees.
Clear and effective reforms to EU migration policy can ensure that the European Union lives up to its shared challenges by facing them together. Source: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
What is happening to household electricity prices in the European states due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and the consequent energy crisis?
“The price of energy in the EU depends on a range of different supply and demand conditions, including the geopolitical situation, the national energy mix, import diversification, network costs, environmental protection costs, severe weather conditions, or levels of excise and taxation.” (Eurostat, 2022)
How did these factors play out in North, South, West & Central Europe over the past 10 years? Watch these short, telling videos.
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Despite being the 4th largest electricity exporter in the EU, Czechia struggles with the highest electricity prices. Household prices started to rise more dynamically than in other CE countries already in 2021, before the Russian war against Ukraine.
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Due to the household energy price caps (not dismantled probably till May 2023), the Hungarian household electricity bills have been the lowest in the Central region. Though, the economic consequences are being felt elsewhere (inflation rate at 25%).
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Not only are household electricity prices in Belgium the highest in the Western region, but they are also among the highest in the EU.
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Spanish households have been dealing with skyrocketing electricity prices since 2021. Despite a series of government measures to help households, Spaniards faced further increases in 2022, just like the rest of Europe.
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Not only do we see that the increase in electricity prices for Greek households was the steepest in the Southern region, but it is also interesting to note that Greece also had the highest electricity prices for non-household consumers in the first half of 2022. Eurostat for example classifies them as medium-sized consumers with annual consumption between 500 MWh and 2 000 MWh.
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Bulgaria's household electricity prices have remained stable. This reflects a decision by the country’s officials from December 2021 to freeze household power and heating prices until March 2022.
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The most considerable increase in the Northern region can be seen in the case of Denmark, where the price of electricity has skyrocketed in the past year.
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In the first half of 2022, an increase in household electricity prices in Latvia caused the country to be the second most expensive in Europe, just behind the Czech Republic.