Meraz threatened to block the EU budget if the EU countries did not commit to allocating funds to Kyiv.
German Chancellor Friedrich March warned the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, in a letter that he will block the EU budget for the years 2028-2034 if all EU member states do not commit to providing financial aid to Ukraine in 2027, reports the Financial Times, citing the letter. "The collective commitment of all of us, without exception, to help reduce Ukraine's budget deficit is a necessary condition for solving this problem and for discussing any other issue, in particular financial," said March's letter, the same newspaper survey.