Juncker: EC no money for economic assistance to Ukraine
According to the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, the EC does not remain public money To provide financial assistance to Ukraine. " We will discuss monetary and economic support of Ukraine, but We have reached the limit of budget expenditures ", - quotes the head of the EC TASS. First on Thursday, the head of the state Duma international Affairs Alexei Pushkov said that the European partners cautiously looking in the direction of Ukraine, as a country boarder and bankrupt. Before the public in Europe was also said about the fact that Ukraine starts to sit down on the neck " of the European Union, being unable on their own to solve their problems. On Wednesday Junker tried to convince the EU to collect For Ukraine 2 billion euros. Remember, in October, the EC received from the Ukrainian authorities request another loan in the amount of 2 billion euros. During a telephone conversation on Tuesday, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko sent a petition to the President of the European Council Donald Tusk on increasing macro-financial assistance To the state. On the First day of the week, the European Commissioner for European neighbourhood policy and the negotiations on the extension Johannes Hahn said that the new package of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine from the EU is able to be created only after the onset of the European Commission (EC) specific results of the Kyiv reforms. It was furthermore argued that the experts of the international monetary Fund has considered the results of the work of the government Arseniy Yatseniuk as disappointing, because Ukraine failed many recommended by the IMF " structural beacons ". Last week it appeared that the government of Ukraine requires fifteen billion dollars in excess of the approved international monetary Fund loan in 17 billion To prevent the collapse of the national financial system and economy. In early December, Ukraine has received the second tranche of macro-financial assistance of the European Union in the amount of five hundred million euros. the 1st tranche of aid to Ukraine from the European Union in the amount of five hundred million euros was transferred in June 2014. To receive foreign financial assistance to Ukraine had very quickly to reduce budget expenditures. If the cost of the army and weapons in Ukraine, on the contrary, increase. At the same time, According to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the military expenditure of the country, who are in difficult financial situation, make up about 5, 8 million dollars a day.