Euroquestions #99 | The EU support to Ukraine: from the sanction strategy to a strategic alliance?

Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the European has designed and implemented an historic sanction strategy to undermine the Russia war effort. And since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022, the European Union has continuously strengthened its support for Ukraine, mobilising more than €135 billion in financial, humanitarian and military aid to date. Have those strategies proved effective to assert the EU strategic goals? In March 2025, an international summit was held in Paris, bringing together some 30 allied countries to discuss the future deployment of a European ‘reassurance force’ in Ukraine, intended to deter any further Russian aggression in the context of a possible peace agreement. But is support from EU member states still unanimous after more than three years of war (Hungary, Slovakia)? Will the coalition of volunteers produce anything concrete?

We have the please to welcome Cyrille Bret, associated researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute to discuss these issues.

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