EU countries will only be able to spend around €500B on defense over the next five years, rather than the desired €800B. According to Fitch Ratings, the EU is contemplating a significant increase in defense spending as the United States, which ensured Europe’s security post-World War II, has shown reluctance to continue... #DefenseBudgetNATO #DefenseIndustryEU #DefenseSpending #EUdefense #France #Germany #NATO
France to provide €2B in military aid to Ukraine and is considering the provision of additional Mirage fighter jets. French President Emmanuel Macron announced €2B in Ukrainian military aid during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He added that the new package will include MILAN anti-tank missi... #EmmanuelMacron #France #MilitaryAid #Mirage2000 #Zelenskyy
Southern European countries do not support the EC’s rearmament plan for Europe. Several European countries have resisted the European Commission’s initiative to boost defense spending through low-interest loans, fearing it would exacerbate their already significant debt burden. I... #DefenseIndustryEU #EUbudget #EUdefense #France #Italy #Spain #UrsulavonderLeyen
Kallas remains hopeful about receiving support from EU members for a €40B aid package for Ukraine. The head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, continues to collaborate with EU member states on her €40B military assistance initiative for Ukraine. “The EU High Representative has proposed a pla... #AnittaHipper #EuropeanCommission #France #KajaKallas #MilitaryAid
France and Italy have blocked EU approval of €5B in aid for Ukraine. During a Brussels summit, the EU was not able to reach an agreement on the allocation of €5B for Ukraine’s ammunition supplies this year, as EU members, including France and Italy, were hesitant... #AmmunitionForUkraine #ArtilleryShells #EUsummit #France #Italy #SupportUkraine
The UK and the EU discuss the confiscation of frozen Russian assets to increase pressure on Putin during potential peace talks. Ukraine’s allies are intensifying discussions to determine how to seize Russia’s assets in an effort to increase pressure on the Kremlin ahead of possible peace negotiations. Foreign Secre... #DavidLammy #France #KajaKallas #MilitaryAid #RussianAssetsConfiscation #RussianCentralBank #SupportUkraine
Starmer presents a plan to deploy over 10,000 Western peacekeepers in Ukraine indefinitely. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, during a virtual meeting of the coalition of the willing, detailed plans for deploying Western peacekeeping forces to Ukraine that would be primarily sourced from ... #France #KeirStarmer #PeaceAgreement #PeacekeepingMission #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarinUkraine
The Ukrainian government has allocated ₴13B for reconstruction projects, and France will allocate €200M for these efforts. The state has designated ₴5B for reconstruction projects across 12 regions. This includes 150 projects under a joint program with the EIB, focusing on repair and construction of hospitals, schools, an... #EIB #France #Okhmatdyt #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery #YuliyaSvyridenko
Trump is pushing Ukraine to surrender: How are Kyiv and Europe reacting to the suspension of American aid? Oleksandr Merezhko, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Committee, commented on the latest decisions from US President Donald Trump, “It seems that Trump is urg... #DenysShmyhal #DonaldTrump #DonaldTusk #Estonia #France #MilitaryAid #OleksandrMerezhko #PetrFiala #WarinUkraine
Major European powers discuss using Russia’s frozen assets as security guarantees for Ukraine more urgently. According to the FT, the European countries’ peace plan envisages using frozen Russian assets worth more than €200B as security guarantees for Ukraine. France and Germany, which have long opposed conf... #France #Germany #GreatBritain #RussianAssetsArrested #RussianAssetsConfiscation #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine
Second emergency meeting in Paris: France and Germany are ready to take responsibility for peace and security in Ukraine and Europe. After discussions in Paris on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron held another urgent meeting focused on Ukraine on February 19. He spoke with several leaders from the EU, Canada, Iceland and Nor... #EmmanuelMacron #EUdefense #France #OlafScholz #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
France and the EU continue to help Russia finance its war against Ukraine through gas and fertilizer purchases. According to an analysis by Friends of the Earth, while total Russian gas imports to the EU have decreased since 2021, imports of LNG and nitrogen fertilizers are on the rise. From 2021 to 2022, Russi... #France #RussianFertilizers #RussianGas #RussianLNG #RussiaProfits #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Europe will be able to provide up to 25,000 peacekeepers for Ukraine. According to the AP, a coalition of European countries is secretly developing a plan to deploy troops in Ukraine to ensure security guarantees following a peace agreement with Russia. The main contrib... #France #GreatBritain #PeacekeepingMission #PeacePlan #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The first French Mirage 2000 fighters and additional F-16s from the Netherlands have arrived. On February 6, Ukraine received its first Mirage 2000-5 fighters from France, a transfer announced by Emmanuel Macron last summer. The initial batch was expected to include three aircraft. France also... #CzechRepublic #EmmanuelMacron #F16 #France #HADES #Mirage2000 #Netherlands #ZEUS
Russians are purchasing real estate in the EU, primarily in France. The number of real estate transactions by Russian citizens in the EU has remained steady over the year, reported Intermark Global. Additionally, the share of European countries in the total volume of ... #France #Migration #RealEstateEurope #Russians #Spain
Macron: Ukraine needs to be provided with the means to survive and the ability to negotiate from a position of strength. The war in Ukraine “will not end tomorrow or the day after tomorrow,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in his address to the French military. According to him, the West’s key ta... #CaesarHowitzers #EmmanuelMacron #France #SAMP/T #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Agricultural trade between Ukraine and France reached $750M last year; planned cooperation in the farm sector will accelerate our country’s European integration. For Ukraine and France, 2024 ended with good results in the mutual trade of agricultural products, said the Minister of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine, Vitaly Koval. “In 2024, agricultural trade... #agroexportukraine #agroUkraine #AnnieGenevard #EuropeanIntegration #France #VitaliyKoval
Poland is calling on Germany to immediately increase defense spending, while France is ramping up purchases of long-range weapons. Poland’s Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk believes that Central Europe, including Germany, should increase its defense spending to set an example for other countries following Trump’s victory, w... #CezaryTomczyk #DefenseIndustry #DefenseSpending #France #Germany #Poland
France wants to be part of the logistics, energy, and telecommunications recovery in Ukraine. France is committed to facilitating the participation of French companies and other stakeholders in Ukraine’s reconstruction. In addition to concessional loans, export insurance, and military ri... #DTEK #ElectronicCommunications #Energoatom #France #SaarstahlRail #Telecommunication #UkraineRecovery #UkrainianRailways
Two European countries are discussing the deployment of troops on the contact line in Ukraine. According to an anonymous senior NATO official, the United Kingdom and France are considering various options to guarantee Ukraine’s security if peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow are launched ... #France #GreatBritain #NATO #NATOsoldiers #SecurityGuarantees #WarinUkraine
Despite the war, the West trades titanium with Russia; interdependence does not allow ties to be severed. In the first seven months of 2024, Russian titanium exports amounted to over $120M, with 33% of supplies going to France and the rest being shipped to the UAE, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Estonia, and Singapo... #China #CriticalRawMaterial #France #Russiantitanium #Sanctions #TitaniumMining
Ukraine’s allies have resumed talks on a decision to send troops to Ukraine, while North Korea expands its missile production for Russia. Europe, amid questions regarding further US support for Ukraine after Donald Trump comes to power, has resumed discussions on sending Western troops and private defense companies to Ukraine. This topi... #France #GreatBritain #NorthKorea #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine #WesternTroops
The EU has paid Russia over €200B for oil and gas since the start of the full-scale war. Since the beginning of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow’s income from the export of fossil fuels has reached almost €785B. Despite sanctions, the EU remains ... #France #GasExport #OilExports #RussianEnergyResources #RussianLNG #RussiaProfits
France is unhappy with the increase in Ukrainian sugar imports to the EU. Jordan Guitton, a member of parliament from the right-wing populist National Unity party, is demanding that the French government comment on what he believes is the harmful impact of Ukrainian sugar a... #agroexportukraine #DairyImportUkraine #France #SugarBeets #SugarExport #TradeRestriction
A threat to the European Peace Facility: EU countries’ positions on bypassing Hungary’s veto are divided. France and Germany do not support an offered proposal to bypass Hungary’s veto, which would block the allocation of more than €6B in aid to Ukraine. The European External Action Service has prop... #EuropeanPeaceFund #France #Germany #HungaryVeto #MilitaryAidforUkraine
Ukraine and France sign a €200M grant agreement to support Ukrainian infrastructure and the economy. Ukraine and France signed a grant agreement in support of Ukraine’s recovery and critical infrastructure and priority sectors of the economy. Companies in France will be able to access this gran... #CriticalInfrastructure #DeminingUkraine #France #infrastructureUkraine #UkraineReconstruction
France urgently tries to convince its allies to invite Ukraine to NATO. According to Benjamin Haddad, the Minister Delegate for European Affairs of France, “The invitation is the first step, an important political signal we could give Ukraine right now. We are mobil... #BenjaminHaddad #France #NATOUkraine #OlgaStefanishyna #VictoryPlan #WarinUkraine
What new energy support did Ukraine’s allies promise? The Netherlands allocated a new €209.5M aid package to Ukraine to restore critical energy infrastructure. In addition, the Netherlands will contribute €45M to the Energy Support Fund of Ukraine and su... #EnergySupportFund #energyukraine #France #Japan #JosepBorrell
A Ukrainian fund joins a €11M financing round for the French developer of a freelancer platform. French startup Jump attracted €11M of investment in a Series A round. Among the investors is the Ukrainian venture fund Roosh Ventures. Pan-European fund Breega led the round, and Index Ventures, RAIS... #France #investments #Jump #RooshVentures #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
The EU will spend €300M of revenues from frozen Russian assets to purchase weapons for Ukraine from French manufacturers. As reported by the French Ministry of Defense, France has joined Ukraine’s new defense support program, established within the framework of the European Peace Fund. The program will allocate €1.4B in ... #EuropeanPeaceFund #France #RussianAssetsArrested #RussianAssetsProfits #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
The EU increased its imports of liquefied gas from the Russian Federation by 7%. Supplies of Russian liquefied natural gas to Europe in the first half of the year increased by 7% compared to last year, with France increasing its imports the most. French companies imported almost 4... #Belgium #France #LNG #LNGimport #RussianLNG #Spain #TotalEnergies
Economic recovery: Ukraine will receive a €200M grant from France and €50M from the EU to develop port infrastructure. The Cabinet of Ministers has submitted to the Ukrainian Parliament an agreement between Ukraine and France that will provide €200M in grant funds for the restoration of Ukraine’s infrastructure ... #blacksea #DenysShmyhal #France #GrantsforUkraine #OdesaSeaport #PortInfrastructureUkraine
Paris will provide Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets to Kyiv and launch a training program for Ukrainian pilots. The training will begin this summer and will take five to six months, and the handover of the planes will take place closer to the end of the year, French President Emmanuel Macron said after meeting ... #EmmanuelMacron #EuropeanPeaceFund #France #Mirage2000 #WarinUkraine
France will provide €650M to help Ukraine in critical sectors. During President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to France, two agreements will be signed that will provide support for key sectors of the economy and critical infrastructure. The French Development... #CriticalInfrastructure #EmmanuelMacron #EnergyInfrastructure #France #Normandy #Zelenskyy
Ukrainian munitions manufacturers will achieve a 25% profit, and France’s €200M grant will be used for defense needs. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that the government has approved a resolution establishing a profit margin of up to 25% of their cost for domestic ammunition manufacturers. He noted the success... #ArtilleryShells #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DenysShmyhal #France #WeaponsProduction
France supports the US proposal for a $50B loan to Ukraine, and Germany is ready to transfer profits to Ukraine. The French government has given its support to the US government’s proposal to use frozen Russian assets, which increases the chances of reaching a preliminary agreement at the meeting of G7 finance m... #BrunoLeMaire #France #G7 #LoansForUkraine #ReparationsForUkraine #RussianAssetsArrested #RussianAssetsProfits
France has provided €100M in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, in addition to military and financial support since the Russian invasion. The French Government has sent food, medical and housing equipment, rescue and firefighting equipment, and 50 ambulances. Thi... #France #FranceAId #FranceUkraine
