European Union interior ministers met in Brussels on Monday to discuss a joint refugee policy as millions flee Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ednews reports citing Deutsche Welle.
They agreed on a plan to coordinate the sheltering capacity between member states based on a solidarity approach.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), some 3.8 million people have fled as Russian forces attack civilian targets and hit cities like Mariupol with constant shelling.
Over 2 million refugees have arrived in neighboring Poland, with hundreds of thousands seeking refuge in fellow EU member states Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia.
Polish officials have warned that their asylum system could buckle under the pressure of so many arrivals in such a short time.
Ylva Johansson, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, spoke to reporters after the meeting.
She said that the ministers had agreed on a 10-point plan. It included creating an EU-wide registration system for Ukrainian refugees and to improve transport coordination to help people move between countries.
The EU will set up an anti-trafficking plan as well as giving direct support to Moldova, a non-EU state on the border with Ukraine that has taken in thousands of refugees already.
"We have received in the EU 3.8 million refugees from Ukraine. Out of those, half of them are children," Johansson said.
But "the number of arrivals is going down," she said. "At the peak we had 100,000 arrivals per day, now it's down to 40,000 per day."