Macron pledges EU will fulfill EUR 90 bln loan commitment to Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron pledged that EU partners will do everything necessary to ensure a EUR 90 billion ($98 billion) EU loan commitment to Ukraine is fulfilled.
"We will do everything possible so that the EUR 90 billion loan that was agreed upon will be unblocked. We will do everything for this," he said at a joint news conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris on Friday.
The total volume of EU assistance provided since 2022, Macron emphasized, "is approaching EUR 200 billion" ($218 billion).
Separately, Macron stressed support for Ukraine’s European integration path.
"The path to membership is difficult, requires a lot of effort, but the path Ukraine has traveled, despite the war, is impressive. Ukraine deserves the opening of the first negotiating clusters. I have no doubt about this. We will achieve this despite the artificial obstacles that have arisen," the French president said.