Europe

Europe agrees €50 billion aid package for Ukraine

It comes despite staunch objections from Hungary

The €50bn aid package for Ukraine demonstrates that the ‘EU is taking leadership and responsibility in support for Ukraine; we know what is at stake’, said Charles Michel, the European Council president. Picture: Getty

The European Council said that it agreed a deal on aid to Ukraine, just over an hour into a summit of the bloc’s leaders and despite threats from Hungary to veto the move.

“We have a deal,” Charles Michel, the European Council president, wrote in a post to X.

He said that all “27 leaders agreed on an additional €50 billion (£43 billion) support package for Ukraine within the EU budget”.

The announcement came despite staunch objections from Hungary in December and in the days leading up to Thursday’s summit in Brussels.