EC Midday press briefing of 06/11/2026
6 November 2026
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European Commission
Follow its sittings00:00 - 00:53
Speaker 3
My question is for Balazs. It's about financing Ukraine. Yesterday Ukraine received more than 3 billion euros of disbursement and more than 20 billion is still not disbursed for this year and I'm wondering do you have any plans how it will be disbursed because it's not a lot of time left until the end of the year? And if some of this amount of money, especially for defense which is almost 12 billion euros left, will be not disbursed this year, next year will it be considered as the help for 2026 or it will be considered at as the 2027? Thank you.
00:53 - 02:03
Speaker 4
Indeed, what is important is that the reform agenda is moving forward now, and that's very important. We welcome that and it is important to keep up the pace and continue the momentum of reforms. Now, because of this, yesterday, as you say, we were able to disperse about 4.4 billion euro to Ukraine mainly for budget support purposes, but also for defense, but there is more in the pipeline, indeed. We have about 20 billion euro under the 90 billion program, which is still available this year and it's important to carry on with the reforms so that we can unlock the remaining funding, which remains the objective. We want to get to 45 billion euro by the end of this year under the loan.
Let me just add to that we had another positive step forward last week. We, at the Commission, adopted what we call the financing strategy for next year for Ukraine, that sets out the structure of the funding for the upcoming year. It is not with the Council and according to that we can calculate with about 30 30 32 billion euro for defense and the rest for budget support. That would be the way to go for next year.
02:03 - 02:07
Speaker 1
And a follow-up?
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