“Dear Denys, today is a good day for Ukraine. The Commission has just released 4.5 billion euros from the 50 billion euro Facility for Ukraine.” The President of the EU Executive Ursula von der Leyen said this when she received the Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
“In April, when the conditions are met, there will be another tranche,” he added. “I am also pleased to receive the Plan for Ukraine, to relaunch investments and get closer to our Union: I am confident that we will soon be able to ask the Council to approve it: the plan will also serve as a basis for other donors”.
“We expect an acceleration of military assistance since the European Union, as Borrell says, is on high alert, our common interests are at risk,” Shmyhal said at the end of the EU-Ukraine council.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has tasked the former president of Finland, Sauli Ninisto, with drafting a report on how to improve EU defense preparedness and readiness. “It is clear that there is no more room for illusions, the world has become more dangerous and the EU must wake up. We know that Putin’s ambitions do not stop at Ukraine”, underlined von der Leyen explaining that the deadline for compiling the report is next autumn. “Finland’s preparedness is not just about the military aspect but about all aspects,” she added.
Green light from the Permanent Representatives of the 27 in the EU (Coreper II) to sanctions against people and entities held responsible for the death of Alexei Navalny. The dossier was approved by the meeting in the points without discussion and triggers the written procedure for final ratification. The procedure could end on Friday morning.
For further information Agenzia ANSA The hour of truth for Kiev – Live from the world – Ansa.it ANSA – by Stefano Polli. Putin’s moves and the necessary responses from the USA and Europe. (HANDLE)
EU sources, Moscow has no rights to the profits of its assets
Moscow ‘cannot claim rights’ on the profits generated by the Central Bank’s assets immobilized in the European Union at the central securities depository institutions (in English Central Securities Depository or CSD) since these revenues ‘are not the property of Russia’ but of the CSD and accrue ‘only due to immobilisation and are already subject to national taxation’. This was stated by a senior European official in relation to the proposal on the use of revenue in favor of Ukraine. ‘We are confident that there will be no legal repercussions following the approval of the proposal,’ notes the official.
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