Germany is working on a 'Marshall Plan' for Ukraine, Karl-Georg Wellmann, a
member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and head of the
German-Ukrainian parliamentary group, said in an interview with the newspaper
Segodnya.
"We have
been working on a new strategy for Ukraine's stabilization and development with
much greater financial and political efforts. This is something new, and it
will supplement the Association Agreement," he said.
According to
Wellmann, the new strategy is just being elaborated, it has not been
incorporated into official policy.
"This is
the idea of a solid 'Marshall Plan' for restoring the economy,
management, the judiciary, etc. If this 'Marshall Plan' ever starts working,
that will happen only under full control and monitoring [by Germany]," he
said.
UNIAN memo. The Marshall
Plan was an American initiative named after Secretary of State George
Marshall to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave
$13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies
after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years
beginning in April 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild
war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe
prosperous again, and prevent the spread of communism.
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