The ESN Group in the European Parliament criticizes that the European Commission has so far failed to respond to a major interpellation submitted on February 11, 2026, by Members of Parliament Hans Neuhoff and Alexander Jungbluth regarding the planned €90 billion loan to Ukraine. The six-week deadline stipulated in Rule 145(4) of the Rules of Procedure expired on March 25, 2026, without any response, meaning that, at the request of the authors, the interpellation should have been mandatorily included in the final draft agenda. Nevertheless, the political groups represented in the Conference of Presidents—except for the ESN Group and Patriots for Europe—voted against including the item, thereby violating the Rules of Procedure and parliamentary oversight rights.
AfD Member of the European Parliament Prof. Dr. Neuhoff, member of the Committee on Security and Defence, stated:
“Anyone who approves a €90 billion loan while knowing it will never be repaid is not conducting financial policy but deception. Repayment was tied to Russian reparations that will never materialize. In effect, this is a gift at the expense of European taxpayers. The fact that the Commission does not consider it necessary to answer eight specific parliamentary questions is no coincidence—it is a system. The legal questionable nature of this project is apparently so severe that any public debate is being avoided. The refusal of the Conference of Presidents to place this issue on the plenary agenda is not a procedural error—it is political censorship.”
AfD politician Alexander Jungbluth, member of the Committee on Budgets, added:
“We submitted eight precise questions to the Commission: on the legal basis of the loan, its compatibility with Articles 310 and 332 TFEU, liability risks for Member States, payment milestones, control mechanisms, and pending audit reports. Not a single one was answered. Instead, the attempt to debate the matter in plenary is being blocked through procedural means. This is no longer a parliamentary process—it is institutional backroom politics. If the Commission is unable to justify the financing of €90 billion in budgetary terms, it has no mandate to commit these funds. Taxpayers in the Member States have a right to transparency, which is being deliberately denied to them here.”
