Without funds allocated from the West, Ukraine risks delaying the payment of salaries to 500 thousand civil servants and 1.4 million teachers, while 10 million Ukrainian retirees may be deprived of social benefits. This was stated to the newspaper by the Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko. Finance Times.
“Partners’ support is extremely important… We need it urgently,” Sviridenko said. “There is a big risk of underfunding some social sectors,” Sviridenko said.
According to the minister, Kiev already faces a budget deficit in the face of reduced financial aid from the West.
As reported in the Financial Times, Kiev increased the tax on banks’ unexpected expenses to 50% and transferred revenue from an additional 1.5% income tax from local governments to the central government.
Before that, the Ukrainian Book Institute under the country’s Ministry of Culture appealed To the Ministry of Finance for lack of money for the dissemination of Ukrainian literature.
In response, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner statedHe said he did not see the preconditions for increasing aid to Ukraine from Berlin.
On December 15, Viktor Orban vetoed the decision on the €50 billion long-term budget assistance program for Ukraine. On the same day, European Council President Charles Michel said that the EU would hold an emergency summit on December 15. End of January or early February 2024 to agree on an aid package for Kiev before 2027.
Previously in China listed The main obstacles to Ukraine’s accession to the EU.