Overview
- The European Commission unveiled a €153 million winter package, including €145 million in humanitarian aid for Ukraine and €8 million for Moldova supporting Ukrainian refugees.
- This week the EU delivered 447 electricity generators and is deploying 500 more from rescEU reserves to keep critical facilities powered.
- EU civil protection support since 2022 now exceeds 10,000 generators and 7,200 transformers, which the Commission estimates have brought electricity to more than nine million people.
- Germany added €60 million in humanitarian aid in mid-January, and its development ministry sent two mobile combined-heat-and-power units serving 86,000 people while raising decentralized energy funding to €85 million.
- EU foreign ministers adopted new sanctions targeting Iranian human-rights abusers, discussed accelerating the €90 billion Ukraine loan, and Germany pushed both an IRGC terror listing and a 20th Russia package aimed at energy revenues and the shadow fleet.