Commentary
Economic Security
Unlocked
A Moment of Opportunity for Central Europe
7 May 2026
2 February 2024
Editor-in-Chief
Why the 50 billion euro promise, the majority vote decision, and the slap to Orbán’s face matter for Ukraine’s future and Europe’s greatness?
The EU summit in Brussels was a historic event for the EU and Ukraine, who got a 50 billion euro promise for the next few years. The EU also agreed to make more decisions by majority vote, showing that it can act fast and effectively.
The summit showed that Europe is determined to make itself great in a different way than Trump would imagine.
After all, the Trumpist camp in Congress would never imagine passing a 50 billion multi-annual financial package for Ukraine while at the same time agreeing on effective border protection measures and new funding to regulate migration.
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Wojciech Przybylski is leading strategic foresight on EU affairs to improve democratic security of Poland in Europe. He organises EuropeFuture.Forum as the Editor of Visegrad Insight and the President of Res Publica Foundation. An advisory board member at LSE IDEAS Ratiu Forum, European Forum of New Ideas. A guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute for the U.S. Government, Warsaw University and CEU Democracy Institute. He co-authored among others a book 'Understanding Central Europe’, (Routledge 2017), and 'On the Edge. Poland' (Culturescapes 2019), 'Let's Agree on Poland' (Oxford University Press, 2025) and was widely published in the international press.
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