{"id":372084,"date":"2024-06-21T17:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/06\/21\/ucraina-ue-300-milioni-export-pmi\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:29:41","slug":"ukraine-300-million-from-eu-to-support-smes-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/21\/ukraine-300-million-from-eu-to-support-smes-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, 300 million from EU to support SMEs&#8217; exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Investing in Ukraine<\/strong>, more and better: The European Union is extending its strategic investment program investEU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/21\/eu-ministers-approve-ukraine-and-moldova-accession-negotiating-frameworks-starting-june-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to the accession candidate country<\/a>, through an agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz JxVs2d ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">the European Investment Fund (EIF) to\u00a0<strong>support European small and medium-sized enterprises<\/strong> exporting goods and services to Ukraine. A \u20ac300 million <strong>credit guarantee<\/strong> facility is available for SMEs.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The initiative, signed on the sidelines of the ECOFIN Council proceedings, aims to revitalize the warring country&#8217;s economy and trade. Through the reduction of <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz JxVs2d ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">financial risks, it is intended to encourage European companies\u00a0to do business with the partner country. Today&#8217;s agreement, stressed Economy Commissioner <strong>Paolo Gentiloni<\/strong>, &#8220;is good news for Ukraine at this critical moment and a vote of confidence on its path to EU membership.&#8221; With the extension of<a href=\"https:\/\/investeu.europa.eu\/index_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> InvestEU<\/a>, he stressed, &#8220;<strong>We reaffirm our strong support<\/strong> for Ukraine&#8217;s economic recovery and reconstruction.&#8221; Therefore, a political as well as economic decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nadia Calvi\u00f1o<\/strong>, President of the EIB, is also pleased. This agreement will be of practical use to the extent that, she explains, &#8220;<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz JxVs2d ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">it will provide essential services and goods in support of resilience and reconstruction, such as\u00a0<strong>materials, machinery, technologies and vehicles<\/strong>,&#8221; to the country system Thus, the most urgent need is being met, and it is also this element that makes the agreement &#8220;an important step&#8221; in respect of\u00a0Kyiv.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The policy decision will become operational in the coming weeks when the<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz JxVs2d ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"> European Investment Fund<\/span><\/span><\/span> will open the application for expressions of interest. That&#8217;s when it will start\u00a0<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz JxVs2d ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">offering guarantees to export credit agencies in the EU and beyond. The program is also open to Norway and Iceland, members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efta.int\/eea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Economic Area.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commission-EIB-EIF agreement on the sidelines of the ECOFIN Council. Goal: Reduce risks to businesses and stimulate economy, trade, and reconstruction. Gentiloni: &#8220;Reaffirmed our strong commitment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":372048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[25746,26428,25911,26279,27359,26800,26752,27560,27013,28256,25882,25883,28257,27564,27987,25789],"class_list":["post-372084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bei-en","tag-trade-en","tag-eib-en","tag-group-bei-en","tag-imprese-en","tag-bank-investment-en","tag-european-bank-for-investment-en","tag-invested-en","tag-investimenti-en","tag-paolo-gentiloni-en","tag-small-and-medium-sized-business-en","tag-smes-en","tag-trade-en-2","tag-ukrainian-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372119,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372084\/revisions\/372119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}