The European Union cannot use its budget to purchase American weapons for Ukraine due to restrictions within the bloc's internal treaties, European Commissioner for Defense Andrius Kubilius said, reports Bloomberg.
According to him, the basic treaties of the European Union do not allow direct allocation of money from the EU budget to purchase American weapons for Ukraine. Therefore, the bloc's countries will have to use money from their national budgets, including that received from the European Union, for this purpose.
“The European Commission may push EU countries to use funds from a pan-European loan of 150 billion euros for general military procurement, potentially freeing up their own money to pay for military supplies to Ukraine,” — Kubilius noted.
The European Commissioner also explained that the funds allocated for military needs from the EU budget for the period until 2034 will be “at least 40 times less than the national military spending of the EU countries.” Most of the increase in military spending by EU countries should also be carried out at the expense of new military loans.
