The German Chancellor on Wednesday called on his country’s companies to invest in Ukraine, which for him is “a future member of the EU”, during a conference in Berlin on economic cooperation between the two nations. “If you invest in Ukraine today and in the years to come, you are investing in a future EU member,” Olaf Scholz said at the 7th German-Ukrainian Economic Forum.
Around 2,000 German companies are active in Ukraine, a country with which the amount of trade increased from 8 to almost 10 billion euros between 2021 and 2023, he said. And “after the war” triggered by the Russian invasion of February 2022, the chancellor wants to believe, Ukraine will experience “growth rates and development opportunities that we only know in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe which have joined the EU over the last two decades.
This enlargement of the Union has “benefited” the German economy, underlined the Chancellor, one more reason to “support” kyiv in “its search for a just peace”.
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