European aid to Ukraine – Accents d’Europe

European aid to Ukraine Accents dEurope

What help to provide to Ukraine when the war seems set to last. Military aid, reception of refugees, economic aid, the challenges are immense. And as much to say that European unity is sometimes found wanting.

The first country exposed due to its geographical position, and a common border just west of Ukraine, Poland currently hosts one and a half million refugees. Eight months after the start of the conflict, the story of this migration is a beautiful story. That of successful integration and strong citizen mobilization to help them. This is the report Warsaw of Martin Chabal.

military aid

And the question of arms aid. France, regularly singled out for its lack of commitment, will finally deliver its famous Caesar guns to kyiv. But Paris comes in thirteenth position, according to the latest report from the Kiel Institute, far very far behind the United States, or even Norway. As for the United Kingdom, it has invested the equivalent of more than two billion euros to provide armaments but also military training. We find at London our correspondent Mary Billon.

The united European Union, but not quite united

And the European Union has of course not remained idly by. First of all it tries to put pressure on Russia with eight packages of sanctions. It has released military aid and financial aid which is now colliding with the economic crisis and inflation. At the last European summit, the 27 still decided to release an additional 18 billion euros in addition to the 19 already recorded. To Brussels the explanations of Jean Jacques Hery.

The Baltics behind kyiv

And the war of ideas is expressed flawlessly in the Baltic countries. Three former Soviet republics which gained independence in 1990 after 50 years of Soviet occupation. It is therefore under the “blue and yellow” colors of the Ukrainian flag that we support kyiv, against Moscow. To Vilnius in Lithuania Marielle Vitureau.

The European eye of Franceline Beretti

The war in Ukraine which is also the site of an ideological confrontation, with two diametrically opposed visions of the world.

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