{"id":40102,"date":"2026-02-06T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=40102"},"modified":"2026-02-09T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:30:07","slug":"failure-to-pass-reforms-may-cost-ukraine-115b-in-imf-and-eu-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/failure-to-pass-reforms-may-cost-ukraine-115b-in-imf-and-eu-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to pass reforms may cost Ukraine $115B in IMF and EU funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine may forfeit access to more than $115 billion in international aid due to stalled reforms and missed commitments under IMF and EU programs, according to a new report from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rrr4u.org\/en\/analytics\/monitoring-implementation-of-the-imf-program-and-eu-assistance-december-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RRR4U<\/a>\u00a0think tank consortium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the IMF approving a new support program in late 2025, Ukraine is showing what analysts called a \u201csharply negative trend\u201d in meeting its obligations \u2014 putting vital financing at risk.<\/p>\n<h4>IMF program \u2018on hold\u2019 as benchmarks slip<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IMF\u2019s $8.2 billion package remains effectively frozen, the experts said, due to Ukraine\u2019s failure to meet several agreed \u201cprior actions\u201d \u2014 reforms that were to be completed before funds are released. The delays also threaten \u20ac90 billion in loans from the EU under the Ukraine Facility plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without those funds, Ukraine may be unable to cover core budget needs, including defense spending. RRR4U urged the government and parliament to act quickly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMobilizing domestic revenue isn\u2019t just an IMF requirement \u2014 it\u2019s a matter of survival,\u201d said Maria Repko, deputy director of the Center for Economic Strategy. \u201cWe\u2019re spending half as much on defense as Russia, and U.S. grants have stopped. These changes are what society must accept internally if we want to defend our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repko stressed that the IMF program is not just important on its own \u2014 it anchors the EU\u2019s \u20ac90 billion Ukraine Support Loan and unlocks funding from other international donors. In total, around $115 billion in aid depends on its success.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF is expected to consider a new four-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Ukraine in February. But approval, said IMF Communications Director Julie Kozack, will depend entirely on Kyiv completing its list of prior actions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/english.nv.ua\/business\/ukraine-risks-losing-115b-in-aid-as-imf-and-eu-reform-deadlines-slip-50580666.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>More news from CES experts can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/category\/experts-in-the-media-en\/\">via the link<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine may forfeit access to more than $115 billion in international aid due to stalled reforms and missed commitments under IMF and EU programs, according to a new report from the\u00a0RRR4U\u00a0think tank consortium. Despite the IMF approving a new support program in late 2025, Ukraine is showing what analysts called a \u201csharply negative trend\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":35358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[187,175,200],"tags":[599],"experts":[172],"news_type":[139],"class_list":["post-40102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-in-the-media-en","category-press-releases","category-news-list-en","tag-international-support-en","experts-maria-repko","news_type-we-are-in-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40103,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102\/revisions\/40103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40102"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=40102"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=40102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}