{"id":33488,"date":"2023-07-21T06:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T06:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=33488"},"modified":"2023-07-21T06:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T06:46:02","slug":"eu-draws-up-plans-for-22bn-ukraine-weapons-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=33488","title":{"rendered":"EU draws up plans for $22bn Ukraine weapons fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeere News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Union is drawing up plans for a 20-billion-euro ($22bn) fund to provide Ukraine with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/inside-story\/2023\/5\/18\/will-new-weapons-from-europe-make-a-difference-in-ukraine\">weapons, ammunition and military aid<\/a> as it fights Russia\u2019s invasion, officials have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josep Borrell, the bloc\u2019s foreign policy chief, outlined the four-year proposal to EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the meeting, Borrell said the EU would \u201ctransform existing support into a long-term commitment\u201d to Ukraine\u2019s security and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe propose the creation of a dedicated section on the European peace facility to provide up to five billion euros a year for the next four years for the defence needs of Ukraine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the evaluation of the needs and the costs of our long-term security commitments to Ukraine,\u201d Borrell told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposal came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/6\/5\/weapons-to-ukraine-which-countries-sent-what\">amid an international drive<\/a> to give Ukraine long-term security assurances, as announced by members of the G7 group on the sidelines of last week\u2019s NATO summit in Lithuania\u2019s capital, Vilnius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeere News: The European Union is drawing up plans for a 20-billion-euro ($22bn) fund to provide Ukraine with weapons, ammunition and military aid as it fights Russia\u2019s invasion, officials have said. Josep Borrell, the bloc\u2019s foreign policy chief, outlined the four-year proposal to EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday. Following the meeting, Borrell said the EU would \u201ctransform existing support into a long-term commitment\u201d to Ukraine\u2019s security and resilience. \u201cWe propose the creation of a dedicated section on the European peace facility to provide up to five billion euros a year for the next four years for&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33490,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33488\/revisions\/33490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}