The EU is using Firtash’s money to develop a “Marshall Plan” for Ukraine
Moscow - Kyiv, March 5 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - A group of reputable European politicians will develop a “Marshall Plan” for Ukraine. They told the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zejtung that experts will offer their proposals for the modernization of this country in October of this year, and until then no one will give Kyiv money.
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The “Ukrainian Modernization Agency” begins work in Vienna, which will include eight high-ranking European politicians who will prepare a plan for reforming the Ukrainian economy, modeled on the American program of economic assistance to Europe after World War II, reports "RG".
In addition to Steinbrück, who took over Ukraine's financial and tax systems, the group of experts included former European Commissioner for EU Enlargement Guenther Verheugen, who is tasked with developing options for the country's integration with the EU, and former European Commissioner for Trade Peter Mandelson, who volunteered to deal with trade issues. Former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, a physician and founder of Doctors Without Borders, will focus on modernizing the healthcare system, and former Polish Prime Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz will focus on fighting corruption. Advisors include former German Defense Minister Rupert Scholz, former European Commissioner Stefan Füle and member of the British House of Lords Ken MacDonald.
The work of the experts will be led by former Vice-Chancellor of Austria Michael Spindelegger. This group is going to work for 200 days. One of the founders of the “Agency for Modernization of Ukraine”, member of the Bundestag from the Christian Democrats Karl-Georg Wellmann, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zejtung that he hopes to ensure that the payment for the activities of advisers, and this, according to European media, is from 5 to 10 million euros, was taken the European Union itself. But for now, according to unofficial data, the money will be provided by Dmitry Firtash and other Ukrainian oligarchs.
Peer Steinbrück told FAZ that he had never been to Ukraine and was ready to go there in the very near future to meet with representatives of the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance of this country. “I hope that the recommendations made by our group will be used and not buried in the closet,” he said. “Reforms are necessary,” Wellman assures, and in the situation in which the Ukrainian economy finds itself today, in his opinion, no one will give Kyiv money. At the same time, as the Austrian Wiener Zejtung reports, it is expected that reforming the Ukrainian economy will require 300 billion euros. “It is still unclear where this amount will come from,” the publication reports.
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