With or without truce, Ukraine will continue to need financial support, and as is something that can no longer be expected from the US, where approximately half of the help received by this country came from, The EU is obliged to step forward and demonstrate that yes, that can face this responsibility alone. It is at least what they are repeating that European leaders are going to do again and again, and it is what the Foreign Ministers will discuss today.
A tanteo plan
The plan that the high representative of the European Union for Foreign and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, has put mobilization and mobilizes and mobilizes todayNTRE 20,000 and 40,000 million in military aid to Ukraine For this year to give certainty to this country at a time when American help is on the wire. Between 20,000 and 40,000 million there is a huge difference, the double between one quantity and another. But things are so right now. Everyone still looks for land where to land something that can satisfy more divided Member States on the issue of what they show in public.
It will not be easy to agree on the total amount or the distribution of the load between countries despite firm support statements to kyiv, at the meeting they are noticed Two speeds: While the East countries complain that the proposal has softened, southern Europe drags the feet more. In fact, they do not even agree that the distribution of the load is made based on the GDP of each country, each country seeks the distribution method that interests it most, such as France, which claims that the security guarantees that will contribute to control a peace agreement in Ukraine are accounted for.
The plan You have to deal with the predictable neglect of the Trump administration and with him HEAVY BLOCK OF THE HUNGERY OF VICTOR ORBAN to any stable help plan to kyiv. That is why it is proposed as a voluntary instrument whose total amount will be distributed according to the economic weight of each participating country. This means that To Spain it would correspond around 8.68% of the fundtranslated into tickets, more than 3,000 million. And the government has announced for this year just 1000 million. That is, three more times.
The Albares Reaction
The comparison between the government’s announcement and what he expects from him by the high representative has caused the aggressive reaction of the Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, At the entrance today of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers where this topic is discussed. VIsly annoying for the question and proposal of Kaja Kallas, has rushed to say that “Spain has not needed a proposal of the high representative to compromise 1,000 million euros For this year, as we have already done in previous years. “
What the minister does in his response is to ignore that Spanish contribution may not be sufficientand to focus better on value than Spain, without waiting for the rest of the partners, at least he had already announced that he is committed to helping.
And it is true that during a past visit of the Ukrainian president in May last year of Volodomir Zelenski to Madrid, Pedro Sánchez He signed with him a political agreement, with a validity of 10 years, in which he promised to contribute these 1000 million each year in addition to cooperating in other areas (intelligence, training, demining, reconstruction and humanitarian assistance).
They were other times. At that time the US contributed half of the international aid to kyiv and there was the hope of a different end to the Ukrainian defeat on the battlefield that begins to draw these days.
Acts, no words
At the moment, despite the fact that Trump has clearly bet on the other side of the Atlantic for the end of the war even at the cost of a strategic victory of Russia, and, despite the fact that the new American administration seems willing to stop subsidizing with weapons and money the war effort, The EU is determined to continue the war effort as necessary.
That means that The statements of our political leaders have to begin to be supported with facts. That is to say, With money. Money that will have to compete with which it will need to reinforce the defense Europe.
This discusses the Foreign Ministers, and this will also discuss at the end of this week the heads of state and government at a summit in Brussels.
