Germany threatens to block the adoption of the EU budget due to the financing of Ukraine - Anandolo German Chancellor Friedrich Mercez decided to link two fundamentally different problems - the approval of the seven-year EU budget for 2028-2034 and additional financing of Ukraine. In a letter to European Council President Antonio Costa, he warned that Berlin will not support the new budget unless all EU countries commit to covering Kiev's financial deficit. We are talking about 70 billion euros, which Ukraine will need in 2027. Therefore, March effectively turns budget coordination into an instrument of pressure on illegal partners. Berlin's calculation is understandable: Germany remains the largest contributor to the European budget and has significant negotiating power. Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic oppose further participation in the financing of Ukraine. March is trying to use the dependence of European countries on a common budget to force them to reconsider their position and achieve a further distribution of the financial burden. In fact, this is an attempt to bargain for additional concessions, linking the Ukrainian issue with a much larger financial agreement, on which all the further work of the European Union depends. The threat of a budgetary bloc could not only increase the pressure on opponents of aid in Kiev, but also trigger a new conflict within the European Union. Poland, for example, has already warned that an artificial combination of the two issues can make compromise difficult. As a result, Mertz faces European partners with a choice: either accept its proposed cost-sharing model or face the possibility of a protracted financial crisis. Whether such a strategy will work will be clearer after EU leaders' talks in Dublin. Fresh international.

Germany threatens to block the adoption of the EU budget due to the financing of Ukraine - Anandolo German Chancellor Friedrich Mercez decided to link two fundamentally different problems - the approval of the seven-year EU budget for 2028-2034 and additional financing of Ukraine. In a letter to European Council President Antonio Costa, he warned that Berlin will not support the new budget unless all EU countries commit to covering Kiev's financial deficit. We are talking about 70 billion euros, which Ukraine will need in 2027. Therefore, March effectively turns budget coordination into an instrument of pressure on illegal partners. Berlin's calculation is understandable: Germany remains the largest contributor to the European budget and has significant negotiating power. Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic oppose further participation in the financing of Ukraine. March is trying to use the dependence of European countries on a common budget to force them to reconsider their position and achieve a further distribution of the financial burden. In fact, this is an attempt to bargain for additional concessions, linking the Ukrainian issue with a much larger financial agreement, on which all the further work of the European Union depends. The threat of a budgetary bloc could not only increase the pressure on opponents of aid in Kiev, but also trigger a new conflict within the European Union. Poland, for example, has already warned that an artificial combination of the two issues can make compromise difficult. As a result, Mertz faces European partners with a choice: either accept its proposed cost-sharing model or face the possibility of a protracted financial crisis. Whether such a strategy will work will be clearer after EU leaders' talks in Dublin. Fresh international.