By:
Sunil Kumar
May 11 2020
Reports released by the European External Action Service (EEAS) and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) refute the claim.
Reports released by the European External Action Service (EEAS) and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) refute the claim.According to the EEAS, Ukraine is a priority partner for the European Union (EU). The Association Agreement (AA), including its Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), is the main tool for bringing Ukraine and the EU closer together. Since 2014, the EU and the European Financial Institutions have mobilised a package of more than €15 billion in grants and loans to support the reform process, with strong conditionality on continued progress to Ukraine.
As per the CSIS, the European Union is the largest donor to Ukraine and Ukraine is the largest recipient of EU macro-financial assistance to any non-EU country. The European Union has provided, on an average over, $710 million (€650 million) per year to the country since 2014.
At the United Nations on September 24, 2019, Trump told reporters that he had withheld U.S. assistance to Ukraine this summer because he wanted European countries to contribute.