Germany halves its allocation for Kiev from 8 to 4 billion in 2025. The difference (perhaps) from frozen Russian assets

There Germanythe second largest donor of aid to theUkraineintends to halve its bilateral military aid to Kiev in 2025. The agency reports it AFP citing a parliamentary source. Berlin intends to compensate for this cut with the increased resources that should come from the accrued interest on frozen Russian assets in Europe. About 190 billion euros in the EU, and 300 billion worldwide, which are estimated to generate interest between 3 and 5 billion euros per year. Money that will go at most to match the current level of resources allocated to Kievin fact, there is no “additional aid” foreseen in addition to the four billion euros planned for next year, half of the eight billion allocated this year.

The government of Olaf Scholz is struggling with a complicated political game to define the 2025 budget, without increasing the debtThere does not appear to be any connection between the decision and what has emerged about the sabotage of the gas pipeline North Stream for which Germany has issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man.

More specifically, Germany is counting on the “creation, in the ascope of the G7 and the European Union, of a financial instrument that uses frozen Russian assets“, another source within the Ministry of Finance said. The sources consulted by AFP they confirmed various press leaks. The Frankfurter daily newspaper General Sunday Newspaper wrote that the decision is part of an agreement between the chancellor, of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, and the liberal finance minister Christian Lindner that asks for savings.