Lithuania has made a proposal to grant Ukraine an additional EU aid
Lithuania proposes to provide Ukraine with additional assistance from the European Union as soon as Kiev will follow all the rules for obtaining it, said the head of the Lithuanian Ministry of Finance Rimantas Sagus upon arrival at a scheduled meeting of the EU Council at the level of Ministers of economy and Finance (ECOFIN).
" We don't want to reveal the real extent of possible additional assistance. But Lithuania wants to make the European assistance to Ukraine is very effective. I think it must be allocated as soon as possible - as soon as Ukraine will fulfill all the rules associated with this package, " he said, reports TASS. First on Tuesday, it was announced that the mission of the international monetary Fund (IMF) has resumed work on Ukraine and will operate in this country until December 18. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk December 3, ordered the Minister of Finance to invite the IMF mission to continue negotiations with the new Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for further lending. Remember, international monetary Fund promised Ukraine assistance in the amount of 17 billion dollars. 1st tranche 3, $ 2 billion Kyiv received in may. on 4 September, the government of Ukraine told about the capture of the second tranche of the IMF in the amount of 1, 39 billion dollars. But getting help is a sharp decrease of the expenditures of the budget of Ukraine. Last week Ukraine has received the second tranche of macro-financial assistance of the European Union in the amount of five hundred million euros. the 1st tranche of aid to Ukraine from the European Union in the amount of five hundred million euros was transferred in June 2014. Ukraine is in a difficult political crisis that affects so not the best state of the economy and its budget. The national Bank of Ukraine did not exclude inflation to 19% in 2014. In addition, the lack of the capital budget of Ukraine has reached 3, UAH 2 billion (274 million). While the decline of Ukraine's GDP in the first six months of this year compared with the corresponding period of 2013 amounted to 3%. In the last month of summer, the former head of the national Bank of Ukraine Serhiy Arbuzov said that the banking system of Ukraine has already begun a technical default. According to the head of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva, since the beginning of this year, the devaluation of the Ukrainian hryvnia was 100%.
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