More than half of Czechs think country has taken in more Ukrainian refugees than it can handle

More than half of Czechs think that the country has taken in more refugees from Ukraine than it can handle, according to the results of a survey by the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) published on Monday. Some 58 percent of people are of this opinion, the survey suggests, while roughly a third think that the number of refugees is manageable and five percent think that Czechia could accept even more.

As of the beginning of April, the Interior Ministry records around 339,000 refugees from Ukraine with temporary protection in Czechia. Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Czech Republic has issued almost 600,000 temporary protection visas, half of which have expired.