{"id":393842,"date":"2025-09-03T06:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393842\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:11:17","slug":"luxembourg-seeks-european-teammates-to-fund-us-weaponry-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393842\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxembourg seeks European teammates to fund US weaponry for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nLuxembourg’s prime minister, Luc Frieden, said on Tuesday his country plans to contribute to a new NATO-led arrangement where European countries pay for shipments of US weapons to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\nA NATO official told Euractiv that a new wave of promises from European NATO countries to buy US military hardware for Ukraine via the PURL initiative is expected in September<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nLuxembourg, the military alliance’s smallest member, has decided to participate in the PURL mechanism, as Frieden announced, which brings the number of countries officially participating in PURL to nine.\n<\/p>\n

\nAt the core of the PURL arrangement are $500 million (roughly \u20ac428 million) packages of US-built military equipment, perhaps most importantly the expensive and tough-to-replace\u00a0Patriot air-defence systems<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nFrieden suggested that Luxembourg will not fund an entire $500 million package alone, but is looking for partners. He did not specify how much Luxembourg is willing to contribute\n<\/p>\n

\n“We will finance the package together with other countries which we still have to identify, a package of already available arms, to a large extend US arms, that we will provide to Ukraine,” he explained.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\nBelgium\u00a0announced<\/a> \u20ac100 million in funding on Friday, while Canada ($500m), Germany<\/a> ($500m) and Lithuania ($30m) all contributed to PURL\u00a0in August.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Netherlands<\/a> also pledged funding for an entire $500 million package earlier in the summer, while Denmark, Norway and Sweden<\/a> announced plans to jointly fund a $500 million installment.\n<\/p>\n

\nFinland and the United Kingdom have expressed interest<\/a> in the scheme, but have not yet announced any contributions.\n<\/p>\n

\nMilitary aid for Ukraine will be counted toward NATO’s 5% of GDP defence-related spending target under guidelines agreed at June’s NATO summit in The Hague.\n<\/p>\n

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