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The U.S., Switzerland, Norway, EU countries, and Japan are among the key donors. The demining coalition for Ukraine includes about 20 countries.

Ukraine's international partners have allocated more than US$700 million in equivalent funds for humanitarian demining projects between 2022 and 2027. Source: Ukraine's Ministry of Economy Details: It is noted that the key donors to Ukraine are the USA, Switzerland, Norway, EU countries, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany and others.

European policymakers have scaled back rules to protect nature, drawn up limits on the import of tariff-free Ukrainian grains and scrapped new legislation limiting pesticide use as farmers' protests resonate with voters ahead of elections. From Poland to Portugal, farmers have won remarkable concessions in response to waves of street action, reshaping the European Union's green politics months ahead of European Parliament elections. Environmental activists and analysts say the policy...

Fiala said that Viktor Medvedchuk and another sanction individual, Ukrainian-Israeli pro-Kremlin propagandist Artem Marchevskyi, "oversaw several influence operations and networks from the Russian Federation" and sought to influence social discourse in Czechia through the Voice of Europe organization, which was also placed on the sanctions list.

Krzysztof Paszyk, leader of the parliamentary group of the agrarian Polish Peasants' Party (PSL), has reported that Warsaw and Kyiv were close to reaching the agreement on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine.

Ukrainian government officials stress that the push from certain EU nations to broaden restrictions on Ukrainian food imports, notably Poland and France, poses a risk of prolonging Russia's aggression.

The European Union must reform its institutions - the European Commission, Council and Parliament - to ensure that it remains capable of working and acting in the event of enlargement to up to 35 members, a German research institute has said. Without these reforms, according to a report published on Tuesday by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW), the EU would not be in a position to enlarge. The report was made available to dpa in advance. The authors of the report highlighted the p

France, Greece, and Cyprus made a “strategic mistake” by blocking the purchase of artillery ammunition for Ukraine from non-European Union sources, sitting member of Germany’s Bundestag, Michael Roth, told NV Radio on Feb. 27.

Politico sources in the EU believe that the change in the position of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen regarding the negotiation schedule with Ukraine about its accession is related to the upcoming European elections.

Four ex-communist central European countries said Tuesday they were not planning to send troops to Ukraine as they remained torn on military aid to the war-ravaged country battling Russia's invasion.The two leaders spoke of their "common point of view" on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Tusk promised to support a Czech plan for several NATO members to jointly buy ammunition for Kyiv from third countries.