A scandal is erupting around aid to Ukraine: MEPs say the €90 billion loan lacks transparency

A political dispute is intensifying in the EU over the initiative to grant Ukraine a €90 billion loan. Some members of the European Parliament are demanding that the European Commission explain under what conditions these funds could be allocated, who would bear the financial risks, and how their use would be monitored.

MEPs from the Alternative for Germany party, Hans Neuhoff and Alexander Jungbluth, said they had submitted an official inquiry to the European Commission but did not receive a response within the required time frame. According to them, the lack of clarification only deepens suspicions surrounding the initiative.

Neuhoff claims that of the €90 billion, two-thirds are expected to go toward weapons, while the remaining part would support the Ukrainian state apparatus. He stressed that the EU has never before allocated a comparable sum to a third country.

“Under such conditions, this is effectively not a loan but a transfer. Repayment looks highly doubtful, and the main burden may fall on European taxpayers,” the lawmaker said.

Jungbluth, for his part, called the situation problematic in several respects at once: the scale of the sum, the lack of transparency regarding guarantees, insufficient financial oversight, and attempts to avoid full discussion in the European Parliament.

According to critics of the initiative, the refusal to hold a public debate on the loan indicates an unwillingness to openly discuss issues that could prove politically inconvenient for the EU leadership.