Wed Jun 7, 2023 – 1:55 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — In a startling admission, European Union (EU) technocrat Josep Borrell has stated that the EU has so far spent over 760 billion euros on the war in Ukraine.
Speaking at this week’s International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS Security conference in Singapore, the EU foreign affairs representative addressed an audience of NATO defense ministers and Asian diplomats.
Borrell framed the EU’s involvement in the war against Russia as a departure from convention.
Maybe not many people know in this region that in the last 15 months in Europe we have been breaking political taboos.
What Borrell meant by “breaking taboos” was the financing of the war in Ukraine.
For the first time ever, we have been funding military support to a country under attack. Providing about €40 billion of military support to Ukraine, coming from the [EU] Institutions, coming from the resources I manage in Brussels, and coming from the Member States.
Yes, much less than the US support. But if you add up all the support – military, civilian, economic, financial and humanitarian – the level of support to Ukraine is about €60 billion for
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