Status: 24.10.2022 00:32
EU Commission President von der Leyen and Chancellor Scholz (SPD) are campaigning for a “Marshall Plan” to rebuild Ukraine. The project should also be a topic at an upcoming meeting in Berlin.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have called for a “Marshall Plan” for the reconstruction of Ukraine. This is “a generational task that must begin now,” wrote von der Leyen and Scholz in a guest article in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.
Several meetings on Ukraine planned
This Monday, a German-Ukrainian economic forum with top representatives from both countries in Berlin will focus on the reconstruction of the country attacked by Russia. Scholz wants to open the conference together with the Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal.
At a reconstruction conference in Berlin on Tuesday, representatives of international organizations, Ukraine and civil society organizations are to discuss the framework conditions.
“The path to reconstruction is the path to the EU”
Between 1948 and 1952, the United States financed the reconstruction of Germany and other European countries with billions of dollars under the Marshall Plan.
Europe has a special role in supporting Ukraine because the country is a candidate for EU membership: “The path to reconstruction is therefore also Ukraine’s path to the European Union,” said Scholz and von der Leyen. Supporting Kiev is in the interest of the EU. “Ukraine also defends the international rules-based order, the basis of our peaceful coexistence and prosperity worldwide. So if we support Ukraine, we are building our future and that of our common Europe,” it said.
Scholz had previously said in his video podcast that the reconstruction of Ukraine has been a task for the international community for decades.