The EU Has Billions in Unspent Defense Funds. It Wants to Use Them for Projects with Ukraine
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<p>The European Commission wants to direct up to €20 billion from the SAFE program to defense projects with Ukraine, while the EU is surprised the European Commission plans to direct €10-20 billion of unused SAFE funds to joint defense projects with Ukraine. The states of the European Union have stated that the proposal was not agreed with them</p>.
Warsaw was hoping to get that money for her own defense programs, not for joint projects with Kiev, says sources.
Unused funds of the European defense program SAFE will be directed to support Ukraine. They will be used to finance joint projects with Ukrainian defense enterprises.
Warsaw relied on this money for itself and learned about the change in the post-factum plans of Poland was among the EU countries surprised by the statement by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Lien, about the intention to direct the unused funds of the SAFE defence programme to general projects from Ukraine. Warsaw itself expected to receive the money for its own defence programmes. RBK-Ukraine, referring to RMF24. Also in the…
The European Commission wants to use SAFE's unspent funds for joint defence projects with Ukraine, in particular the Freyja system, while Poland relied on that money for its own use.
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