Ukraine–European Union relations

The European Commission announced that the EU budget's capacity to support Ukraine has been exhausted and new options should be sought to continue it. This happened during the presentation of the draft EU budget for 2024 on Wednesday.

Twelve European countries objected in a letter to the European Commission against the concessions it made to Bulgaria and four other EU members for the import of Ukrainian food.

"Bulgaria will continue to support Ukraine categorically with all the tools at its disposal". This was stated by the Chairman of the National Assembly Rosen Zhelyazkov at a meeting with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk.

The reversal of the ban on imports will be effective from Friday morning, the ministers said.

The European Commission will provide 56 million euros to support farmers in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, affected by the increased export of agricultural products from Ukraine, said Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, quoted by Bloomberg. "We're seeing an increase in supplies, a huge increase in imports to the border countries," he said.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is attending an EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels focused mainly on Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Monday's meeting is chaired by the EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell.

At least that's what the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, told journalists, reports AP.
In addition to the old reflex and "historical memory" of the era of colonization, but also the recent wars of the West in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and the bombing of Yugoslavia, this was particularly noticeable when it comes to views and attitudes towards the war in Ukraine.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Von der Leyen in Kyiv: So far, the EU has provided 50 billion euros to Ukraine

"When we rebuild Ukraine, it will be carried out in accordance with the goal of Ukraine's entry into the EU," Scholz said at the opening of the German-Ukrainian economic forum in Berlin.
In his opinion, the traffic infrastructure as well as the transport sector must be renewed so that it will enable a smooth connection to the EU infrastructure.

She said that the path to the EU is the path to a strong democracy, and that the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Moldova are the future of the Union.
Von der Leyen, in her address to the European Parliament, said that the EU, when it comes to the foreign policy agenda, must invest in democracy.