1、1 Jacques Delors Institute Policy brief Introduction The Russian federation,led by Vladimir Putin,launched a military offensive against Ukraine on 24February 2022,triggering a humani-tarian disaster on the European continent of an unprecedented scale since WWII.Faced with violent shelling,combats,an
2、d other massacres on the ground,which have caused a great deal of both military and civilian casualties and stranded part of the Ukrainian population with very little resources,1 around 10 million of Ukrainians have fled their homes to find safety in other regions of Ukraine but also in neighbouring
3、 countries,Poland at the forefront.Refugees have been met with open arms in the EU as heads of states and governments,and citizens alike have displayed true solida-rity towards the Ukrainian people,in line with the European values enshrined in our trea-ties(Article 2 TEU).Nonetheless,the influx of m
4、illions of Ukrai-nians in such a short amount of time will certainly have socio-economic consequences for our societies.This paper provides some preliminary insights on these consequences,although uncertainty remains a key element to consider in our analysis.This paper first examines the situation t