The European Parliament may redistribute 600 million euros for Moldova after the creation of the Fund for Ukraine.
Siegfried Mureşan, chairman of the European Parliament delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee, announced this on his social media page, noting that he had presented the relevant amendment to the European Parliament. According to him, the Legislative report on the Fund for Ukraine, which the European Parliament is currently working on, provides for the creation of a new financial instrument worth approximately 50 billion euros to support Ukrainian citizens and authorities. The money will be provided to Ukraine in the second half of the current multi-year financial framework of the European Union, that is, in 2024-2027. “Once this special financial instrument is created, the funds originally allocated in the EU budget to support Ukraine in 2024-2027 will become available for other investments. This amount is estimated at about 600 million euros from the EU Neighborhood Instrument. In the amendment that I made to the draft resolution, I ask that this money be made available to EU candidate countries on the border of the war in Ukraine. At the moment, the only candidate country on the border with Ukraine is Moldova,” said Siegfried Murešan. He noted that after Ukraine, Moldova is the country that suffered the most because of the war. The authorities and citizens of Moldova had to deal with the largest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita compared to all European countries. The MEP said that, at the same time, Moldova is constantly subjected to a hybrid form of aggression from Russia, including campaigns of disinformation and manipulation of the population, the use of gas supplies as a means of blackmail and attempts to destabilize the situation on the Moldovan border. Earlier, the EU had already decided to redirect 135 million euros, originally planned for programs with Russia and Belarus, to strengthen cooperation with Moldova and Ukraine. // 06.09.2023 — InfoMarket
