Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Ukraine’s recovery and EU accession will be a defining project for the European Union in the 2020s. The costs will be massive.
The EU and its Member States, together as ‘Team Europe’, have committed approximately €135 billion in financial, military and humanitarian support for Ukraine and its people, including the for Ukrainian refugees in the EU (Dec. 2023).
In this episode you will find out just how EU funding stacks up against that of our allies and gain a deeper understanding of why we need to start rebuilding now.
📺 Watch the second episode of the financing Ukraine’s recovery: youtu.be/5J-J_JStbvM
📖 Dig deeper into the numbers in our publications:
- Financing Ukraine's recovery: Consequences for the EU budget and budgetary control, and principles for success: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_IDA(2023)749804
- EU-Ukraine 2035: Strategic foresight analysis on the future of the EU and Ukraine: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2023)747454
📲 Find all our publications on our EPRS app: • iOS: http://epyoutube.eu/q57W • Android: http://epyoutube.eu/q57X
CONTENT
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Why does the EU want to finance Ukraine’s recovery?
01:34 How much will financing Ukraine’s recovery cost?
02:17 How much will come from the European Union?
03:22 How does EU spending compare to that of international donors?
04:13 Why we are spending money on Ukraine reconstruction now?
05:20 How will the spending change once the war is over?
05:55 What would a prolonged conflict mean the strategy to help Ukraine recover financially?
06:29 Outro
Ukraine’s recovery and EU accession will be a defining project for the European Union in the 2020s. The costs will be massive.
The EU and its Member States, together as ‘Team Europe’, have committed approximately €135 billion in financial, military and humanitarian support for Ukraine and its people, including the for Ukrainian refugees in the EU (Dec. 2023).
In this episode you will find out just how EU funding stacks up against that of our allies and gain a deeper understanding of why we need to start rebuilding now.
📺 Watch the second episode of the financing Ukraine’s recovery: youtu.be/5J-J_JStbvM
📖 Dig deeper into the numbers in our publications:
- Financing Ukraine's recovery: Consequences for the EU budget and budgetary control, and principles for success: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_IDA(2023)749804
- EU-Ukraine 2035: Strategic foresight analysis on the future of the EU and Ukraine: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2023)747454
📲 Find all our publications on our EPRS app: • iOS: http://epyoutube.eu/q57W • Android: http://epyoutube.eu/q57X
CONTENT
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Why does the EU want to finance Ukraine’s recovery?
01:34 How much will financing Ukraine’s recovery cost?
02:17 How much will come from the European Union?
03:22 How does EU spending compare to that of international donors?
04:13 Why we are spending money on Ukraine reconstruction now?
05:20 How will the spending change once the war is over?
05:55 What would a prolonged conflict mean the strategy to help Ukraine recover financially?
06:29 Outro
