EU helps to raise €1 billion for Solidarity Lanes 
November 14, 2022

EU helps to raise €1 billion for Solidarity Lanes 


On 11 November,  the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB) , the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the World Bank Group, announced that they had mobilised €1 billion for Solidarity Lanes to increase global food security and provide a lifeline for Ukraine’s economy.

The European Commission will urgently dedicate 250 million of grants to boost the Solidarity Lanes. For the short-term, the EU will support quick improvements, in particular with mobile equipment, to reduce waiting times and improve movement through the border crossing points and their access routes. For the medium-term, the Commission is mobilising the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) and 50 million to support the infrastructure developments needed to further increase the capacity of the Solidarity Lanes.

The European Investment Bank plans to invest up to 300 million by the end of next year on projects that respond to the Solidarity Lanes objectives.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development intends to invest 300 million in favour of Solidarity Lanes over 2022-2023, part of which will go to projects already identified and in the process of being approved.

The World Bank Group is preparing an emergency project to undertake repairs of the railway and road infrastructure damaged by the war with up to US$100 million targeted for disbursement in 2023. Rehabilitation of railway infrastructure and multi-modal logistics in Romania and the Republic of Moldova to Ukraine’s borders is under discussion to support Ukrainian critical exports and imports, and lay foundations for reconstruction.

The European Commission reminds that Ukraine normally supplied around 45 million tonnes of grain to the global market every year. The EU’s Solidarity Lanes created in response to Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea have helped to export 15 million tonnes of Ukrainian agricultural goods (grain, oilseeds and related products) by road, rail and through Black Sea and Danube ports. This initiative is also the only option for the export of all other, non-agricultural Ukrainian goods to the rest of the world and for importing all the goods it needs, such as fuel and humanitarian assistance. 

According to the European Commission, the ‘Solidarity Lanes’ also “bring Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova closer to the EU single market, while keeping both countries connected to the rest of the world”.

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