{"id":302788,"date":"2025-07-30T02:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302788\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:40:13","slug":"european-countries-to-borrow-billions-from-eu-to-rearm-ukraine-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302788\/","title":{"rendered":"European countries to borrow billions from EU to rearm Ukraine \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Hungary, and Lithuania have\u00a0formally expressed an interest in\u00a0requesting\u00a0the loans, the EU\u2019s defense spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others including\u00a0Czech Republic, Latvia, Bulgaria and Greece\u00a0indicated\u00a0they will do so\u00a0before the deadline on Tuesday at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>By jointly buying weapons through the scheme, countries can secure a lower price than they would obtain by going it alone and then deliver the <a href=\"https:\/\/mod.gov.ua\/en\/news\/ukraine-presents-its-defence-industry-projects-requiring-funding-under-the-safe-initiative\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mod.gov.ua\/en\/news\/ukraine-presents-its-defence-industry-projects-requiring-funding-under-the-safe-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">armaments to Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>France is also likely to apply for the loans, while Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands are expected to decline, according to people familiar with those governments&#8217; plans.<\/p>\n<p>However, even countries not taking loans are still able to cut the cost of arms deliveries by taking part in joint procurements.<\/p>\n<p>European countries are facing growing pressure to increase their own weapons stocks and to boost military aid to Ukraine after U.S. President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-kaja-kallas-us-eu-patriots-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signaled unwillingness<\/a> to continue funding Kyiv&#8217;s war effort. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Hungary, and Lithuania have\u00a0formally expressed an interest in\u00a0requesting\u00a0the loans, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[44693,7907,2825,473,7057,365,32,1112,2000,7704,299,5187,769,36,1824,1450,478,2199,1113,1114,24479,2597,1115,770,7061,332,104,812,2600,657,49,12923,771,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-302788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-andrius-kubilius","9":"tag-austria","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-defense-budgets","13":"tag-denmark","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-estonia","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-european","20":"tag-finland","21":"tag-france","22":"tag-germany","23":"tag-greece","24":"tag-interest-rates","25":"tag-italy","26":"tag-latvia","27":"tag-lithuania","28":"tag-malta","29":"tag-military","30":"tag-norway","31":"tag-poland","32":"tag-procurement","33":"tag-russia","34":"tag-spain","35":"tag-sweden","36":"tag-switzerland","37":"tag-ukraine","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-valdis-dombrovskis","40":"tag-war","41":"tag-war-in-ukraine","42":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114939876499100815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}