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The leaders of the 27 European Union countries sealed a deal Thursday to provide Ukraine with a new 50-billion-euro ($54 billion) support package.
The deal on Ukraine aid comes after a small group of leaders persuaded Hungary’s PM to drop his veto on the funding package.
The agreement comes as President Joe Biden's push to replenish wartime aid for Ukraine has stalled in Congress.
As EU leaders met in Brussels to discuss financial aid to Ukraine, outside, farmers were continuing days of protests that have seen tractors block traffic into the Belgian capital. Brussels police say around 1,300 tractors have descended on the city, which began by blocking traffic on the outskirts on Wednesday before moving into the EU district yesterday. The farmers’ grievances include burdensome EU regulations and competition from cheaper Ukrainian agricultural imports, for which trade tariff
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has strongly criticized tactics used by Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, ahead of summit talks in Brussels. "I mean, there's no problem with so called 'Ukraine' fatigue. For sure, we have Orbán fatigue now here in Brussels," he said. "I can't understand, I can't accept this very strange and very egoistic game of Viktor Orbán." "This is for Victor Orbán to decide if Hungary is a part of our community or not," he told reporters. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sounded