EU aid for Ukraine totals EUR 12 bln over 3 years – Head of EU Delegation

Speaking at a forum on public administration reform in Kyiv on November 16, the diplomat stressed that this was the largest financial aid that the EU has ever disbursed.

Moreover, the European Union has mobilized EUR 200 million for grant programs in Ukraine, which is more than in any other country, he added.

Read alsoUkraine's Interior Ministry gets EUR20 mln under new Ukraine-EU project As UNIAN reported earlier, at the end of March 2017 the Congress of the European People's Party adopted a resolution on the development of a long-term plan for supporting Ukraine - the so-called "Marshall Plan" for Ukraine. 

Read alsoUkraine to EU: Tell us what we're fighting forOn August 18, Ukraine's Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv said the New European Plan for Ukraine provided for at least EUR 5 billion in annual support from the European Union for the implementation of reforms aimed at the country's economic growth and development.

According to Kubiv, the plan is now being actively discussed by key international institutions with the aim of forming a "group of friends" of Ukraine and ensuring the required support for its implementation.

At the same time, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevicius, the Marshall Plan for Ukraine should now be called the "European Plan for Ukraine".