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Many topics on the agenda, as you know.

One of the most important is obviously the budget, the MFF, the multiannual budget,

and I think this is not even a starting point for these discussions.

This is far too big, far too expensive.

It would increase the Swedish net contribution by some 60%. That is simply totally unacceptable. The country like-minded with Sweden.

We are providing some 70% of the support to Ukraine and some 40% of the money to the European Union already,

so it's simply not acceptable to increase the domestic Swedish contributions even further.

So I would simply say no to today's proposals, and this is not the starting point for the final agreement.

But how do you want to find a compromise?

It's too early to say, too early to tell, you know.

We think that the tradition of having approximately 1% of GNI is a reasonable contribution,

and the countries that are providing the most cannot be asked to increase our contributions even further.

A 60% increase of the Swedish contribution is simply not acceptable. It's a no go zone.

I think it will be pretty tense, honestly.

We are not reaching an agreement this month, not next month.

I don't know even if it's possible to reach an agreement before the end of the year.

I think we are not in a hurry, honestly.

We need to have a budget that can combine the modernization,

the resources for Ukraine.

And of course the traditional things as well, but all the titles need to be decreased to be able to reach an agreement.

We very much regret this agreement on diesel.

It's obviously not a very big part, but still it's in the wrong direction, and every step now to help the Russians to increase their the financing of the war is,

is a bad sign, so we very much stick to Volodymyr Zelensky's view on this. That Sorry, once again, please.

Mm well I see but I can't hear you really honestly so I do you, do you support Ukraine's strikes of Russian refine of course, yeah, of, of, of course they, they need to limit the, the,

the money that Russia can can can gain from, from exports, of course,

That's also a way of saying that the agreement between the US and the Russians right now is is a bad sign, of course, thank you so much.

Media information
ID I-296330
Date 15/10/2026
Duration 03:27
Languages Original
Location Europa building, Brussels
Institution Council of the European Union
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