{"id":913258,"date":"2026-04-23T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/913258\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:35:19","slug":"eu-approves-e90b-loan-to-ukraine-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/913258\/","title":{"rendered":"EU approves \u20ac90B loan to Ukraine \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two countries lifted their vetoes after oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline, which was damaged by Russian strikes earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/druzhba-oil-ukraine-loan-slovakia-hungary-viktor-orban\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resumed<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Commission President Ursula von der Leyen celebrated the news on her way to Cyprus, where she is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-council-summit-iran-war-eu-budget-live-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting with European leaders<\/a> to discuss the energy crisis caused by the war in the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Russia doubles down on its aggression, we are doubling down on our support to the brave Ukrainian nation enabling Ukraine to defend itself,&#8221; von der Leyen <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/2047282101335028064?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary&#8217;s outgoing prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, and Slovakia\u2019s Robert Fico, conditioned their support for the loan to the restoration of oil flows through the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The restart ends a months-long standoff that blocked the EU\u2019s largest financial package for Kyiv, and which sparked fears the war-battered country would run out of money.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/volodymyr-zelenskyy-expects-hungary-lift-veto-ukraine-loan-druzhba-oil-flows-resume-end-april\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>\u00a0his country would repair the Druzhba pipeline shortly after\u00a0Hungarian opposition leader P\u00e9ter\u00a0Magyar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hungarys-tisza-party-widens-parliamentary-majority-as-final-votes-are-counted\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated<\/a> Orb\u00e1n in national elections held earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two countries lifted their vetoes after oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline, which was damaged by Russian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[33,2000,299,5187,2190,6084,809,2661,15857,6566,2558,657,1781,2601,771],"class_list":["post-913258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-elections","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-hungary","tag-infrastructure","tag-negotiations","tag-oil","tag-pipelines","tag-robert-fico","tag-slovakia","tag-ukraine","tag-viktor-orban","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116454052884295470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913258","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=913258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}