
Brussels Backtracks: EU Drops €40 Billion Ukraine Aid Package
Despite the EU’s foreign policy chief’s claims about “broad political support,” opposition from France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal has derailed Brussels’ ambitious military package.
Despite the EU’s foreign policy chief’s claims about “broad political support,” opposition from France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal has derailed Brussels’ ambitious military package.
As Brussels pushes for urgent military aid to Ukraine, divisions deepen over funding, with bigger economies resisting calls to pay the most.
Foreign policy decisions should be reserved for member states, but EU treaties mean little to von der Leyen’s hyper-centralized Commission.
EU leaders push for soaring defence budgets while funding Ukraine indefinitely.
The Commission thinks enlargement in the next five years is realistic. “All this is happening thanks to the Hungarian presidency,” the Albanian PM commented.
Western geopolitical interests require a relationship with the ruling HTS despite it being a designated terrorist organization.
Brussels’ leftist-liberal elite has been determined to punish the country’s ruling conservative party.
Kaja Kallas’ party has lost support over progressive policies and perceived hypocrisy.
Brussels’ center-left coalition is built on “lies and deceit,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said while his party set out to create its own parliamentary group of like-minded Central European parties.
The EU mainstream is still calling the shots, as leaders and factions who fail at the ballots put unelected bureaucrats in charge of 450 million people.