{"id":325089,"date":"2025-10-23T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325089\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:02:12","slug":"eu-split-over-whether-to-let-ukraine-use-e140b-loan-to-buy-us-weapons-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325089\/","title":{"rendered":"EU split over whether to let Ukraine use \u20ac140B loan to buy US weapons \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf the aim is to keep Ukraine in the fight, you need to keep the criteria open,\u201d said a senior EU diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>They claim that attaching a \u201cBuy European clause\u201d would prevent Kyiv from accessing much-needed weapons such as the Patriot missile defense system that are only produced in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2241038537-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7377675\"  \/>In order to boost their burgeoning defense industries while helping Ukraine, France and to a lesser extent Germany and Italy\u00a0support using the loan to buy European weapons for Kyiv. | Kostiantyn Liberov\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that they can buy more and more weapons from Europe but we know that we don\u2019t have all those capabilities and weapons in Europe that they need. So it\u2019s reality that they also must be allowed to buy from the U.S., if needed,\u201d Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said in an interview with POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>Divisions on this issue emerged last week during a dinner of EU defense ministers, according to an EU official.<\/p>\n<p>Former Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovil\u0117 \u0160akalien\u0117 \u2015\u00a0who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/206997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stepped down<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday over disagreements with the country&#8217;s prime minister on the defense budget \u2015\u00a0supported opening the Ukraine loan to U.S equipment in an interview with POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can use the reparation loan to fund what Ukraine needs the most, this is great, and it can be great if it could be used to cover the most urgent needs of Ukraine, including the weapon systems made by United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She referred to a NATO initiative \u2015\u00a0the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List \u2015\u00a0that envisages the U.S. selling weapons to Kyiv provided that European allies pay for them.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Ross contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf the aim is to keep Ukraine in the fight, you need to keep the criteria open,\u201d said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":325090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3232,262,748,50,131,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-325089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-manufacturing","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-war","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115420551528214890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}