Ukraine has asked the EU an additional 2 billion euros
The Ukrainian government asked the European Union to provide an additional 2 billion euros macro-financial assistance, said Tuesday the Director of the Department for debt and international financial support of the Ministry of Finance of the country Galina Maharchuk. " We appealed to the EU's macro-financial assistance in the amount of 2 billion euros, " said Maharchuk, RIA " news " referring to the newspaper " true European ". The sources of the publication in the EU official confirmed the existence of such a request and explained that this amount consists of two different treatment from the Ukrainian side. Remember, the Ukrainian authorities have a hope to save the country's economy through external borrowing, as well as among them of the IMF. 1st tranche 3, $ 2 billion Kyiv received in may, the second - 1, $ 4 billion in early autumn. The IMF blesed the allocation of Ukraine in the total difficulties 17 billion dollars to stabilize the budget in terms of political and economic decline. In addition, the allocation of funds depends on the implementation by the Ukrainian authorities ' reform program. Ukraine in recent months is in a severe political crisis that affects so not the best state of the economy and its budget. The national Bank of Ukraine did not exclude inflation to 19% in 2014. In addition, the lack of the capital budget of Ukraine has reached 3, UAH 2 billion (274 million). While the decline of Ukraine's GDP in the first six months of this year compared with the corresponding period of 2013 amounted to 3%. Finance Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Shlapak offered by the IMF to combine the third and fourth tranches and list the country before the end of the year total 2, 2-2, 3 billion dollars.