{"id":34440,"date":"2024-08-06T10:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T14:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/eu-sends-e4-2-billion-in-financial-aid-to-ukraine\/06\/08\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T14:56:44","slug":"eu-sends-e4-2-billion-in-financial-aid-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/eu-sends-e4-2-billion-in-financial-aid-to-ukraine\/06\/08\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"EU sends \u20ac4.2 billion in financial aid to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>European Union countries signed off on the first quarterly payment to Ukraine from a \u20ac50 billion ($55 billion) support fund on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The payment worth \u20ac4.2 billion is to finance the functioning of the state as Ukraine fights to defeat Russia&#8217;s all-out invasion and support the economic stability of the war-stricken country.<\/p>\n<p>The EU overcame entrenched opposition from Hungarian Prime Minister <span class=\"caas-xray-inline-tooltip\"><span class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill rapid-nonanchor-lt\" data-entity-id=\"Viktor_Orb\u00e1n\" data-ylk=\"cid:Viktor_Orb\u00e1n;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Viktor%20Orb%C3%A1n\" data-i13n=\"cid:Viktor_Orb\u00e1n;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Viktor Orb\u00e1n;cid:Viktor_Orb\u00e1n;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/a><\/span><\/span> earlier this year to set up the \u20ac50-billion fund for Ukraine, sourced from the bloc&#8217;s budget, to run until 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian premier, viewed as having the closest relations with Moscow in the bloc, vetoed a previous attempt to set up the fund citing a lack of built-in review mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n has also previously linked the EU budget negotiations with the disbursement of EU funds for his country, which had been frozen over corruption and abuse of power allegations.<\/p>\n<p>EU leaders agreed to debate the fund&#8217;s operation each year until 2027.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest \u20ac4.2 billion payment, the EU has issued \u20ac12 billion to Ukraine from the support fund.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine must meet pre-agreed conditions to continue to receive the regular quarterly payments under the fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/eu-sends-4-2-billion-144256952.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union countries signed off on the first quarterly payment to Ukraine from a &euro;50 billion ($55 billion) support fund on Tuesday.<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/eu-sends-e4-2-billion-in-financial-aid-to-ukraine\/06\/08\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}