During an online meeting of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) working group on Wednesday 30 March, Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Lviv, called for the EU to provide a €500 million credit line for 25 years at a “symbolic rate” to support Ukraine’s reconstruction needs.
Sadovyi told CoR members that his city was “perhaps the largest centre in the world” for refugees, estimating their number in the city at 200,000 at present. For example, the city has set aside...