The United States recommended that Ukraine consolidate its current positions during the year and increase its own production of weapons, while looking for a new strategy to retake territory, sources told The New York Times. https://t.co/fTVv0QDhiX.
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) December 12, 2023
Concessions to Hungary on Ukraine's membership could cost top EU officials their jobs. According to Politico, Hungary and its pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are already resorting to outright blackmail of the EU.https://t.co/n8XNkrQ9ML
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Austria opposed the start of negotiations with Ukraine on joining the European Union, because "Kyiv should not receive privileges that Bosnia and Herzegovina do not have." https://t.co/KSd7T87sbV
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The European Commission intends to raise €15 billion from Russia's frozen assets to send as financial aid to Ukraine, but the developed plan must be supported by all EU member states. https://t.co/m51qzokdZE
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) December 12, 2023
Needs to be supported by all EU states, okay, so it's not going to happen because Hungary will block it. We should be sending all the frozen assets to Ukraine, what is Russia going to do about it? And even the most evil of person has to realise that using Russia's money is better than using our own but Orban would probably cry at the thought of upsetting Putin.