{"id":325,"date":"2024-07-29T04:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/germany-slashes-ukraine-funding-in-savings-push-politico\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:38:42","slug":"germany-slashes-ukraine-funding-in-savings-push-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/germany-slashes-ukraine-funding-in-savings-push-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany slashes Ukraine funding in savings push \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;The aim is to make $50 billion available this year, Ukraine can then decide for itself how to use them,&#8221; he added, referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/g7-deal-ukraine-russia-assets-loan-war\/\">a deal<\/a> on Russian assets struck by world leaders last month.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to cut aid to Ukraine, which was first reported by Reuters, resolves a mystery surrounding the German coalition&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-leaders-olaf-scholz-preliminary-agreement-budget\/\">unexpected agreement<\/a> over the budget following an all-night bargaining session two weeks ago. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Lindner and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck offered only vague explanations for how they had managed to bridge a substantial financing gap that threatened to bring down their alliance. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-war-slashes-funds-ukraine-russia-savings-aid-drat-2025-budget-defense-deal\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The aim is to make $50 billion available this year, Ukraine can then decide for itself how to use them,&#8221; he added, referring to a deal on Russian assets struck by world leaders last month. The decision to cut aid to Ukraine, which was first reported by Reuters, resolves a mystery surrounding the German coalition&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[180,174,181,182,46,160,183,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance","7":"tag-budget","8":"tag-christian-lindner","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-defense-budgets","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-nato","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}