It is reported that three days after Russia launched the "Special Military Operation" in February this year, EU announced the use of the "European Peace Fund" (EPF). The purpose of this IMF is simply that if member states aid Ukraine, the final fiscal losses can be reimbursed through this organization. And the reimbursement rate is very high, reaching 85%. This means that countries can let go of their hands to provide various relief to Ukraine, and the EU bill will pay for it, and they only have to bear the political cost. No matter which aspect it considers, EPF is a business that is stable and has been welcomed.
As of now, the EU has allocated about 2.5 billion euros under the "European Peace Fund" mechanism to repay governments for military supplies provided to Ukraine. Here is a account. Germany is the most aided by EU countries to Ukraine. Secondly, France and , Poland and are also "big players" that provide support. This money is enough to reimburse most countries for the expense of support. At first they did reimbursement according to the reported figures, but with the European economy problems, the reimbursement of the EU EPF organization has become lower and lower, and now it has reached the "lowest point".
Three days ago, the EU announced that the reimbursement ratio given was sharply reduced from 85% at the beginning to 46%, a shrinkage of nearly half. This made the countries that "work hardest" in supporting Ukraine's weapons very uncomfortable, and they all felt deceived. Especially Poland has declared 2 billion euros of reimbursement funds, and is now told that only half of them can be reimbursed and other losses must be borne by themselves. Not only that, even the EU has not actually paid for the reimbursement of the payment they promised to reimburse. The EU Foreign Action Agency, which is responsible for foreign affairs, insists that the repayment is already on the way, but no one knows whether the money has arrived or where it has been, and whether it can be transferred to the accounts of these countries in the end.
As for why the EU suddenly "turns around" and significantly reduces the reimbursement ratio, there are two possibilities: First, they can no longer afford to pay. After experiencing the energy turmoil in autumn, many parts of the EU need funds to fill it; especially the energy subsidies some time ago have emptied a lot of funds. In this case, aiding Ukraine is not that important, so we can move backwards. The second possibility is that Germany and other EU powers are very dissatisfied with Poland's attitude of "reaching for money". Poland's reimbursement ratio is very high, and almost all aid materials are requested for reimbursement. In addition, they asked Germany for "World II compensation" some time ago. In combination with various factors, many people believe that Germany, the dominant country of the organization, has lost patience with it.
It is worth mentioning that in this environment, all countries have begun to "work alone". For example, after announcing a 100 billion euro fiscal subsidy, Germany announced an energy subsidy bill of 200 billion euros, which is very "generous" to its own country; on the issue of Ukraine, countries have lost interest in support since July. They are now just giving Ukraine some economic and military aid intermittently, which cannot keep up with the United States. There is a comment on this: "Now Zelensky still longs for them to apply for long-term economic grants from Europe after the war, and looks forward to the EU giving them tens of billions of euros of fiscal grants to rebuild Ukraine; now looking at the EU's reimbursement of more than 2 billion euros of aid reimbursement, it is hard to imagine how hard this organization can do to Ukraine."
