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Germany’s unwillingness to pay more into a joint European Union fund for military aid to Ukraine is “very unfortunate,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on Monday in Brussels. Currently, individual EU member states providing aid to Ukraine directly can be compensated by the EU through a funding mechanism called the European Peace Facility (EPF). But foreign ministers are discuss an alternative arrangement where member states procure some Ukrainian aid jointly through a €5 billion ($5.4 billion) top up of the EPF budget. “There is a principle of European unity, of the rea…

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