{"id":1394596,"date":"2026-05-18T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-european-commission-announced-progress-on-the-90-billion-loan-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:28:03","slug":"the-european-commission-announced-progress-on-the-90-billion-loan-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-european-commission-announced-progress-on-the-90-billion-loan-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac90 Billion for Ukraine Moves Forward as EU Signals Major Financial Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Ukraine and the European Union continue negotiations on a memorandum of understanding that will pave the way for macro-financial assistance within the framework of a 90 billion loan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"920\" data-end=\"1009\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/news\/2026\/05\/18\/7237791\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> &#8220;European Pravda,&#8221; citing the European Commission&#8217;s spokesman, Bal\u00e1zs Ujvari.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1011\" data-end=\"1174\">According to him, the parties still have to finalize three documents, but the most ready one is the memorandum of understanding on macro-financial assistance to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1176\" data-end=\"1248\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not quite there yet, but we&#8217;ve made significant progress,&#8221; Ujvari noted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1250\" data-end=\"1436\">He explained that this memorandum is based on three key areas: the current agreed program with the IMF, the implementation of economic reforms, and the fulfillment of certain political conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1438\" data-end=\"1524\">The European Commission spokesperson also emphasized that negotiations with Ukraine are proceeding constructively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1526\" data-end=\"1673\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">&#8220;Negotiations are going very well. Give us some time, and then, hopefully, very soon we will be able to give the final green light,&#8221; said Bal\u00e1zs Ujvari.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1526\" data-end=\"1673\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">As previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-rozkryv-detali-otrymannia-90-mlrd-vid-yes\/\">Ukrainian President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/span><\/span> spoke with journalists and outlined the situation with EU funding, weapons supplies, and responses to Russian attacks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p data-start=\"2594\" data-end=\"2693\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Also, follow \u201cPryamyi\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a><\/span>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"mark-post js__votes_block js_single-ask\" data-id=\"1385629\" data-nonce=\"453d588f83\"><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine and the European Union continue negotiations on a memorandum of understanding that will pave the way for macro-financial assistance within the framework of a 90 billion loan. &nbsp; This was reported by &#8220;European Pravda,&#8221; citing the European Commission&#8217;s spokesman, Bal\u00e1zs Ujvari. &nbsp; According to him, the parties still have to finalize three documents, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1347025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76892],"class_list":["post-1394596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394741,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394596\/revisions\/1394741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1347025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}