EU Leaders Approve €50bn Support Package for Ukraine
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, has disclosed the agreement of all European leaders to give a €50bn ($55bn; £43bn) aid package to Ukraine.
"We have a deal," Mr Michel wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
He noted that the agreement "locks in steadfast, long-term, predictable funding for Ukraine".
There had been fears that Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban would block the aid package as he had done already at a European summit last December.
Mr Orban had said he wanted to force a rethink of EU policy towards Ukraine and questioned the idea of committing to fund Ukraine for the next four years.
Mr Orban had been pushing for a yearly vote on the package, but there were fears this would have left the deal exposed to an annual veto threat from Hungary.
"A good day for Europe," Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said on X.
While expressing his appreciation to EU leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that the decision was taken by all 27 leaders.
