{"id":1394846,"date":"2026-05-19T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/temporary-protection-for-ukrainians-in-the-czech-republic-may-be-changed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:32:36","slug":"temporary-protection-for-ukrainians-in-the-czech-republic-may-be-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/temporary-protection-for-ukrainians-in-the-czech-republic-may-be-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary protection for Ukrainians in the Czech Republic may be changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Czech Republic has begun discussing possible changes regarding the stay of Ukrainians who have received temporary protection. In particular, this concerns men of draft age.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1868175250544225\/?rdid=txdqPa1iUvnfsDCo#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was stated by<\/a> the leader of the SPD party and the chairman of the Czech Chamber of Deputies, Tomio Okamura.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, the country is allegedly negotiating with the EU regarding a possible revision or termination of temporary protection for this category of Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p> Okamura also advocated a tougher approach to all Ukrainians in the Czech Republic. He said that, in his opinion, there were \u201ctoo many\u201d of them, and added that some Ukrainians allegedly regularly traveled home.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThere are too many Ukrainians here, and something needs to be done about it,\u201d the politician said.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, he acknowledged that current EU rules do not allow the Czech Republic to independently abolish the temporary protection mechanism. According to him, negotiations on this issue are progressing with difficulty.<\/p>\n<p> Okamura also stated that the most realistic way to end this mechanism is to end the war in Ukraine. After that, Ukrainians will either have to return home or switch to other legal grounds for staying in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, he reported that his political force is preparing a new version of the law on foreigners, which may tighten the rules of stay for migrants, including for Ukrainians with temporary protection.<\/p>\n<p> We will remind, earlier, the leader of the Czech opposition populist movement &#8220;Freedom and Direct Democracy&#8221; and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Tomio <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/skandalna-zaiava-u-chekhii-proponuiut-zupynyty-dopomohu-bizhentsiam-z-ukrainy\/\">Okamura, called for the termination of the temporary protection program and financial support for Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/v-irlandii-zghortaiut-prohramu-zhytla-dlia-ukraintsiv-liudey-vyseliaiut\/\">Ireland is gradually winding down the free accommodation program for Ukrainian refugees<\/a> , which is why people are forced to look for housing on their own or move to other regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Czech Republic has begun discussing possible changes regarding the stay of Ukrainians who have received temporary protection. In particular, this concerns men of draft age. This was stated by the leader of the SPD party and the chairman of the Czech Chamber of Deputies, Tomio Okamura. According to him, the country is allegedly negotiating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1326607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76878,76885],"class_list":["post-1394846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-society","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}