Posted on 10/18/2022 9:28:37 PM PDT by kiryandil
A much-touted EU fund meant to help countries replace weapons shipped to Ukraine is increasingly unable to cover an influx of reimbursement requests — and it hasn’t even sent out its first payment.
Days after Russia’s war began, the EU set up a €500 million pot, encouraging countries to arm Kyiv and ask the EU to foot the bill. After looking at the receipts it received, Brussels determined it could cover about 85 percent of the costs, according to estimates shared by three diplomats.
Then the EU authorized an even bigger pot — eventually totaling €1.5 billion. That’s when the flood of receipts started. The EU got so many requests that it calculated Brussels could only cover roughly 46 percent of the asks, the estimates show.
The plummeting percentage angered Poland, one of the EU’s largest weapons donors to Ukraine — and a leading reimbursement seeker, having submitted €1.8 billion in receipts, according to the diplomats. For days, the country blocked a final agreement on disbursing the second tranche of money, hoping to negotiate a higher rate.
"For them, below 50 percent is just too little,” one diplomat noted.
But Warsaw ultimately relented, agreeing on Wednesday to the 46 percent figure, according to diplomats. The move came as frustration mounted among other member countries who saw Poland as standing between them and large EU payments.
Still, the waning payback scheme risks damaging the EU’s reputation as a reliable military partner — just as Ukraine implores Europe for more weapons to aid a counteroffensive and fend off renewed Russian bombardments. Already, EU powers Germany and France are facing criticism for not donating enough, while some smaller countries say they’re running low on supplies.
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Showing up to make a complete moron out of yourself...again?
It is called the Spear. It’s made by Sig-Sauer and it is an absolute beast.
Yes, I wrote a paper on the Peloponnesian War in college that earned me an A.
And I don’t really need “war” FReepsplained to me. I spent the better part of nine years in a war zone, some of it dealing with cost and budgetary aspects.
My comment stands. Ukraine is doing an awful lot of “gimme dat”-ing. Tucker Carlson was spot on about that.
My favorite quote from “Hill Street Blues”
Puerto Rican gang leader shows up for a police-organized meeting of street gangs. He looks around at all the other gangbangers, and says -
“Me voy a contagiar con tanto microbio.”
Cracked me up.
Or maybe Moldavia could simply reunify with Romania. Doesn’t Romania have a decent, modern military?
“you put up with summer in Da Southern Flats.”
Werent to bad this year. I would say two or three weeks of toasty weather. People who grew up here say this year was how it used to be. I guess they used to grow dry land wheat in this valley years ago.
Openurmind would know. He grew up here I guess.
Lake Mead is up since they started to release more water from above.
I got one for you! Take a gander at this!
https://pvtimes.com/news/test-site-contamination-creeping-toward-area-drinking-groundwater/
Or maybe Moldavia could simply reunify with Romania. Doesn’t Romania have a decent, modern military?
It was stolen by the Soviets from Romania who stole it from Russia who stole it from the Ottomans. Based on the main ethnicity most of it should go to Romania.
jI imagine that the UKR is pretty much shooting at anything and everything, the cost of the weapon bedamned. Kill and destroy the invaders with whatever exotic weapon you have and let the US/NATO/EU pick up the cost.
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