{"id":46415,"date":"2026-04-23T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=46415"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:57:57","slug":"zelensky-to-join-eu-leaders-in-cyprus-after-90-bn-euro-loan-unblocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/zelensky-to-join-eu-leaders-in-cyprus-after-90-bn-euro-loan-unblocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky to join EU leaders in Cyprus after 90-bn-euro loan unblocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div>\n<p>\u00a0EU leaders will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday in Cyprus to celebrate the release of a 90-billion-euro ($105 billion) loan for Kyiv after a prolonged deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary approval for the badly needed money came on Wednesday but a definitive sign-off is expected by Thursday, before European Union leaders hold talks with Zelensky in Cyprus&#8217;s Ayia Napa marina.<\/p>\n<p>The funds were blocked after a bitter row broke out between Hungary&#8217;s nationalist premier Viktor Orban and Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>Orban said he would only lift his veto after Ukraine fixed a pipeline damaged by a Russian strike. After 16 years in power, Orban suffered a crushing election defeat to pro-EU opposition figure Peter Magyar in an election this month.<\/p>\n<p>And the standoff was resolved when Zelensky said Tuesday repairs had been completed and officials said the next day that Ukraine had restarted pumping oil to Hungary and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow ally Orban has frequently been a thorn in the EU&#8217;s side over Ukraine and EU officials hope on issues related to Kyiv, decisions will be made faster without his opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomats were relieved by Wednesday&#8217;s green light. One EU diplomat said Zelensky&#8217;s Cyprus visit was &#8220;symbolically important&#8221; now that the EU money will help support Kyiv against Russia in 2026 and 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Orban, who will only step down next month, will not attend meetings in Cyprus on Thursday and Friday, which will be informal, with no concrete decisions expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0EU leaders will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday in Cyprus to celebrate the release of a 90-billion-euro ($105 billion) loan for Kyiv after a prolonged deadlock. Preliminary approval for the badly needed money came on Wednesday but a definitive sign-off is expected by Thursday, before European Union leaders hold talks with Zelensky in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46417,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46415\/revisions\/46417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}