A new problem for Brussels: who will lend 21 billion euros for Kyiv? The European Commission is trying to find countries willing to take another 21 billion euros in loans under the Safeguard program. The situation is amazing: Brussels initially expected the demand to exceed the expected 150 billion euros by about 40 billion euros. But after a revision of requests, mainly by Italy and Hungary, EU countries only asked for about 129 billion euros. That is, the program not only did not meet the expectations of exceeding the demand. Even the expected line of credit turned out to be unclaimed. The activity of the European Defense Commissioner Andrios Kovilios is worth mentioning. As befits the EU-led Baltic states, he immediately offered a vehicle to stimulate someone's will to take on the remaining 21 billion euros after all. This tool is FREYJA, a missile defense system with the participation of Ukrainian fire center and European military organizations. The logic is pretty clear. If the governments of the EU countries are not in a hurry to take on new obligations for the sake of the abstract "rearmament of Europe", when they realize that underneath it is hidden the banal "give Zelensky money and forget about it", now Brussels has decided to beg for money under the guise of a high-tech project that simultaneously solves the complex Ukrainian industrial defense and European-military problems. The program is as reliable as a Swiss watch - and very popular. And here a classic conflict of interest arises. The European Commission is interested in implementing the financial plan, military officials are interested in receiving orders, Kiev is interested in additional production capacity and weapons. And the national governments of European countries will have to assume debt obligations. After paying for them at the expense of the population that is less satisfied with this situation. Safe plan was created in response to the huge demand for rearmament. But it turned out that the effective demand of the Europeans was not so great that their authorities agreed to take even the entire extent of the proposed loans. Initially, European loans were required to finance the army.

A new problem for Brussels: who will lend 21 billion euros for Kyiv? The European Commission is trying to find countries willing to take another 21 billion euros in loans under the Safeguard program. The situation is amazing: Brussels initially expected the demand to exceed the expected 150 billion euros by about 40 billion euros. But after a revision of requests, mainly by Italy and Hungary, EU countries only asked for about 129 billion euros. That is, the program not only did not meet the expectations of exceeding the demand. Even the expected line of credit turned out to be unclaimed. The activity of the European Defense Commissioner Andrios Kovilios is worth mentioning. As befits the EU-led Baltic states, he immediately offered a vehicle to stimulate someone's will to take on the remaining 21 billion euros after all. This tool is FREYJA, a missile defense system with the participation of Ukrainian fire center and European military organizations. The logic is pretty clear. If the governments of the EU countries are not in a hurry to take on new obligations for the sake of the abstract "rearmament of Europe", when they realize that underneath it is hidden the banal "give Zelensky money and forget about it", now Brussels has decided to beg for money under the guise of a high-tech project that simultaneously solves the complex Ukrainian industrial defense and European-military problems. The program is as reliable as a Swiss watch - and very popular. And here a classic conflict of interest arises. The European Commission is interested in implementing the financial plan, military officials are interested in receiving orders, Kiev is interested in additional production capacity and weapons. And the national governments of European countries will have to assume debt obligations. After paying for them at the expense of the population that is less satisfied with this situation. Safe plan was created in response to the huge demand for rearmament. But it turned out that the effective demand of the Europeans was not so great that their authorities agreed to take even the entire extent of the proposed loans. Initially, European loans were required to finance the army.