Europe

10.November 2023 BG

EU: Backup plan if Hungary blocks aid to Ukraine

The European Commission has proposed extending budget support to help Ukraine pay salaries and cover other costs. There are concerns that the aid could be blocked by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

The United States of America and aid to Ukraine

04.October 2023 Slobodan Kostic

Government on a temporary budget

Somewhere deep in the consciousness of a large number of Americans is the feeling that one must lend a hand to the weak in need, especially if the attacker is a symbol of an undemocratic, totalitarian state such as Vladimir Putin's Russia, with all the vestiges of former animosity towards the Soviet Union. So it's hard to imagine that any US administration will sit back and watch Putin's tyranny of its neighbors, but aid probably won't be as unquestioning or generous as it has been.

The World

01.October 2023 Z.S.

Argument over the budget: First America, then Ukraine

The US Congress passed a bill to temporarily fund the government, a few hours before the budget deadline at midnight. If the law had not been adopted, about one and a half million employees in the federal service would have been left without income, and more than two million active and reserve military troops would have been left without pay.

In the new issue

17.September 2022 Bogdan Petrovic

Ukraine and the West: Aid by the spoonful

As winter approaches, Ukraine's financial situation is getting more difficult. In addition to covering the current deficit, it is necessary to provide money for the purchase of energy sources. Ukraine can hardly continue to "monetarily finance" the costs of the war without a complete collapse of its financial system