{"id":820891,"date":"2026-03-12T14:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/820891\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:33:17","slug":"eu-proposes-fact-finding-mission-to-ukrainian-pipeline-at-center-of-e90b-loan-drama-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/820891\/","title":{"rendered":"EU proposes fact-finding mission to Ukrainian pipeline at center of \u20ac90B loan drama \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS \u2014\u00a0The European Commission has proposed sending a fact-finding mission to a contested Soviet-era pipeline in an attempt to resolve a bitter row between Kyiv and Budapest and unlock a major tranche of financial support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have proposed a mission to inspect the pipeline to Ukraine,\u201d Commission spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen told reporters Thursday, adding that Ukraine had yet to respond to the request.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, Hungary has refused to approve a \u20ac90 billion EU loan for Ukraine over the Druzhba pipeline, which transports oil from eastern Russia to Central Europe and has been offline since early January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS \u2014\u00a0The European Commission has proposed sending a fact-finding mission to a contested Soviet-era pipeline in an attempt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[10697,35,2000,299,2190,2661,15857,332,2558,657,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-820891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-anna-kaisa-itkonen","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-hungary","13":"tag-oil","14":"tag-pipelines","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-slovakia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116216699871644173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820891","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=820891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}