16:39 21.11.2017

EU ready to offer EaP countries an investment plan, not 'Marshall Plan'

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EU ready to offer EaP countries an investment plan, not 'Marshall Plan'

The European Union will not raise the subject of the "Marshall Plan" for Ukraine at the Eastern Partnership summit to be held in Brussels on November 24, but is ready to offer Ukraine and other partners the access to the European External Investment Plan, according to two high-ranking European officials.

"The European External Investment Plan is the key new instrument beneficial for the Eastern Partnership countries," one of them told journalists in Brussels.

The official also added that the plan envisages, among other things, the mobilization of private investment.

According to the second official, the agenda now includes financial and investment support to the countries of the region.

He said that Ukraine could also raise the issue of the "Marshall Plan" if it wants to.

"The goal of any summit of this kind is that all partners can raise those issues that are important to them. We have no limits... If representatives of Ukraine want to raise this issue, we will be happy to listen to them," he added.

The official recalled that the EU had provided and continued to provide financial assistance to Ukraine.

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