The Diplomat
The four Reception, Attention and Referral Centers (CREADE) of the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration will have a counseling service for Ukrainian citizens displaced by the war to find employment in Spain.
As reported yesterday by the Ministry, the attention will be provided by the CEOE Foundation and will be offered in person at the information points in the facilities of Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), Barcelona, Ciudad de la Luz (Alicante) and Malaga. In the Barcelona center, the employment counseling service will start today, May 5, while in the Madrid, Alicante and Malaga centers it will begin next week.
The CEOE Foundation, through its Companies for Ukraine program (www.empresasporucrania.org), has launched an employment platform aimed at displaced Ukrainians. More than 500 companies are already collaborating on the platform, offering more than 2,000 vacancies throughout the country for all types of profiles. In addition to job vacancies, the platform facilitates free Spanish courses offered by academic institutions, as well as other skills that favor employability (such as digital skills). The CEOE Foundation website also provides verified information in Ukrainian to facilitate the arrival and inclusion of this group.
According to Ministry data, some 130,000 people from Ukraine have arrived in Spain since the beginning of the Russian invasion, of whom more than 86,000 already have work and residence permits to stay in Spain. Almost 40% of the displaced persons are minors.
The profile of the more than 40,000 people assisted in the CREADEs shows “high employability”, according to the Government: 60% of the adults have higher education, 26% have a high school or vocational training degree and 11% have completed secondary education. The professions most represented among Ukrainians living in Spain are economists (10%), engineers (5.6%), lawyers (4.3%), accountants (4.2%), hairdressers or beauticians (4.1%) and teachers (3.7%).
Meeting of Escrivá with EU ambassadors at the Residence of France
On the other hand, the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, yesterday held a meeting with the ambassadors of the European Union states accredited in Spain, convened by the French Embassy in the framework of the French presidency of the Council of the European Union.
During the meeting, held at the French Residence in Madrid, the French ambassador to Spain, Jean-Michel Casa, recalled that “the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine” has caused the flight of “millions of refugees” to the territory of the European Union. “Faced with this tragic situation, now more than ever, European support and solidarity are essential and Spain assumes its role, in particular by organizing the reception of many refugees,” Casa added, quoted in a press release from the French Embassy.
For his part, José Luis Escrivá stressed that the European response to the crisis in Ukraine has been a “turning point”, with the activation of the temporary protection directive for the first time in history, and highlighted “the agility of the Spanish response”, which has allowed the implementation of a system that allows to obtain work and residence permits in less than 24 hours and to deploy four centers where all the necessary procedures to stay in Spain can be carried out. “We have made an enormous effort, which has had as a result that almost 90,000 people already have their permits and the rest already have appointments to obtain them,” he assured.
This is the fifth meeting organized by the French Ambassador in the framework of the European Presidency. The European ambassadors have already met on four other occasions with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares; the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska; the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles; and the Third Vice-President and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera.
