French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday 24 May that there was “unanimity” among Member States to quickly implement the European Commission’s recent proposal to provide up to $9 billion in new emergency macrofinancial assistance to Ukraine in the face of a Russian military invasion (see EUROPE B12955A2).
“We believe that we must do the maximum financially” for Ukraine, said the President-in-Office of the Ecofin Council, highlighting that France had already provided...