EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn has said the European Commission (EC) received the so-called "Marshall Plan for Ukraine," but it has already the necessary tools for its implementation.
"I have received this Marshall Plan from the Foreign Minister of Lithuania and I have carefully read it. Honestly, everybody everywhere is always talking about Marshall Plan. And there is an 'inflation on Marshall Plans.' We have Marshall Plans for Africa, we have so… I think the spirit of this paper is already solicit or we try to implement the spirit of this paper already today," Hahn said at Eastern Partnership Civil Society Conference and the Annual Assembly of the EaP Civil Society Forum in Tallinn, Estonia, according to a video, posted on Facebook by Ukrainian MP, head of the Rada Committee on Foreign Affairs Hanna Hopko.
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"But today Ukraine's economic success is on the agenda as well. To this end we voiced and introduced the idea of the 'Marshall Plan' in Europe and the United States," Viktoras Pranckietis said, adding that the initiative was supported both at the political and financial levels.