The European Union will provide Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg with 433.79 million euros to compensate for costs related to the provision of Ukrainian refugees and recovery from the corona virus pandemic.
Source: The European Union
“In Belgium, €33.4 million from the European Social Fund (ESF) will enhance guidance, counselling and employment support. The objective is to integrate into the job market refugees from Ukraine and vulnerable job seekers that lost their job or are in precarious employment conditions after the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing in particular on digital skills development.
In Luxembourg, the Fund for Aid to the Most Deprived will receive €390,000 to deliver more food aid to people in need. It will allow Luxembourg to continue responding not only to the current needs of households in precarious situations but also to higher needs and new demands in food delivery caused by the social consequences of the pandemic.
In Italy, €136 million will be added to the operational programme ‘Governance and institutional capacity’ to help alleviate pressure on the country’s health system, contribute to hiring new public healthcare workers and cover the costs of extra hours worked by 23,200 doctors and other healthcare personnel during the pandemic. Moreover, €264 million will be used for the purchase of doses of vaccines against COVID-19.”
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