Two years after the start of the large-scale war, the dynamic of Western support for kyiv is losing momentum: newly committed aid is down over the period from August 2023 to January 2024 compared to the same period of the the previous year, according to the latest report from the Kiel Institute, published in February 2024. And this trend could continue, with the American Senate struggling to pass aid, and the European Union (EU) having had every difficulty in have aid of 50 billion adopted on 1is February 2024, due to the Hungarian blockade. Please note, these two aid packages are not yet taken into account in the latest assessment made by the Kiel Institute, which ends in January 2024.
Data from the German institute show that the number of donors is decreasing and is concentrated around a core of countries: the United States, Germany, the countries of northern and eastern Europe, which promise both high financial aid and advanced weaponry. In total, since February 2022, the countries which support kyiv have committed at least 276 billion euros on the military, financial or humanitarian level.
In absolute terms, the richest countries have been the most generous. The United States is by far the leading donors, with more than 75 billion euros in aid announced, including 46.3 billion in military aid. European Union countries announced both bilateral aid (64.86 billion euros) and joint aid from European Union funds (93.25 billion euros), for a total of 158.1 billion euros.
When these contributions are compared to the gross domestic product (GDP) of each donor country, the ranking changes. The United States has fallen to twentieth place (0.32% of its GDP), well behind countries neighboring Ukraine or former friendly Soviet republics. Estonia takes the lead in aid relative to GDP with 3.55%, followed by Denmark (2.41%) and Norway (1.72%). The rest of the top 5 is completed by Lithuania (1.54%) and Latvia (1.15%). The three Baltic states, which all share borders with Russia or its ally Belarus, have been among the most generous donors since the start of the conflict.
In the ranking of the percentage of GDP, France is twenty-seventh, having committed with 0.07% of its GDP, just behind Greece (0.09%). The aid provided by Paris has been in constant decline since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – France was twenty-fourth in April 2023, and thirteenth in the summer of 2022.
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The meeting between President Erdoğan and CHP leader Özgür Özel ended – Last Minute Türkiye News
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Ankara witnessed a critical meeting after 8 years.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Özgür Özel at the AK Party Headquarters.
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The summit, which was the first meeting between the AK Party and CHP leaders after 2016, started at 16.04.
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CHP leader Özel was welcomed by the party’s deputy chairman, Mustafa Elitaş, in front of the AK Party Headquarters.
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After the welcome, the private and his entourage went inside.
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The meeting, which took place in the chairman’s office on the 8th floor of the headquarters, started at 16.04.
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STATEMENT FROM CHP SOURCES
The meeting between the two lasted 1.5 hours.
While Özel did not make a statement after the visit, he went to CHP Headquarters after his meeting.
CHP sources made a statement that the Erdoğan-Özel meeting was positive and productive.
Sources reported that it seems that progress can be made in solving the problems.
According to the information obtained, the leaders also gave gifts to each other.
Erdoğan gave Özel a cup set from the National Palaces, as well as tea and honey, and Özel gave President Erdoğan an object called “Fire of the Republic”.
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ELİTAŞ AND TAN ALSO AT THE MEETING
CHP Istanbul Deputy Namık Tan and AK Party Group Deputy Chairman Mustafa Elitaş also took part in the meeting.
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THE PROCESS STARTED WITH THE HOLIDAY CONGRATULATIONS
The process that will bring President Erdoğan and Özel together started with the holiday congratulatory phone call made by the CHP Chairman to Erdoğan.
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Erdoğan and Özel had a short meeting at the April 23 reception held for the 104th opening anniversary of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. At that meeting, it was decided to come together.
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AGENDA NEW CONSTITUTION
The main agenda item of the meeting, which started at 16.00 at the AK Party Headquarters, is the new constitution. In his statement to journalists upon his return from Iraq, Erdoğan said, “I believe that CHP can also support change.” He used the following expressions.
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Apart from the constitution, Özgür Özel’s bag included increasing the income sources of local governments that are experiencing difficulties due to their debts.
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Municipalities’ projects awaiting approval from the central government, cost of living, pensions and teachers awaiting appointment were other topics on the agenda.
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Before the critical meeting, Özel talked to former CHP chairmen Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Altan Öymen, Hikmet Çetin and Murat Karayalçın on the phone and received their opinions and suggestions regarding the meeting with Erdoğan.
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United Kingdom arrests first migrants for deportation to Rwanda
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. — © EPA-EFE
The first migrants to be sent to Rwanda under the controversial Rwanda plan have been arrested and detained in the United Kingdom. The British Home Office announced this on Wednesday.
“The first illegal migrants eligible to be sent to Rwanda have now been detained, following a series of operations across the country this week,” a ministry press release said. It does not say how many people are involved, but does indicate that similar operations will follow in the coming weeks.
“This action is an important part of the plan to organize flights to Rwanda in the next nine to eleven weeks,” it said. Charter flights have now been reserved and “an airport has been placed on standby”. The British government previously said it expects to deport 5,700 migrants to Rwanda this year.
The British government wants to stop attempts by migrants to cross to the United Kingdom by boat from mainland Europe. She has struck an agreement with Rwanda under which asylum seekers who enter the UK illegally can be sent to the African country. They must apply for asylum there and cannot return to the United Kingdom even if their application is approved.
According to figures from the Home Office, a record 7,657 migrants crossed the Channel in the first four months of this year.
British media report that a first asylum seeker was sent to Rwanda on Monday, but that deportation took place under a different program, on a voluntary basis, separate from the Rwanda plan on forced deportation. The man was flown to the Rwandan capital Kigali after his asylum application was refused.
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