The President-elect of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, travelled to Kyiv on Friday 20 September to announce new Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) of up to €35 billion, which will be guaranteed by windfall profits from frozen Russian assets.
“It’s a huge step forward”, she stressed, alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. While the EU has helped Ukraine with more than €118 billion since the start of the conflict, “relentless Russian attacks means...