The newspaper had reported on 2 October the agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the €45 billion loan for 2027. Less than 24 hours later, that figure risks not being enough.

According to sources reported by ANSA, Ukraine may need “up to €70 billion” more in 2027, in addition to the €45 billion already agreed. The news currently comes from a single source — ANSA, citing EU-Kyiv diplomatic sources — and has not yet been independently confirmed.

The breakdown indicated by the same sources distinguishes two items: around €40 billion earmarked for macro-financial support and €30 billion for defence aid. This would therefore be a package almost double the one already drawn up, covering a single budget year.

Brussels and Kyiv are working to precisely define these needs and prepare a report to be submitted to the twenty-seven member states, possibly in time for the European Council meeting in October. The negotiation thus falls within a tight schedule: the additional figure, if confirmed, should be examined by governments in the coming weeks.

For the current year, 2026, the same sources rule out new funding “gaps”: the assistance already committed is said to be sufficient. One domestic political condition remains, however: approval by the Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, of the reforms required as a precondition for the disbursement of the agreed funds.

The new requirement, if confirmed by other sources, would redefine the scale of the financial commitment discussed just the day before: not a marginal adjustment, but a request that nearly doubles the amount of support already announced for 2027.

The Spanish Congress of Deputies rejected two government decree-laws on housing in recent days. The first was voted down 178 to 172; the second 184 to 166. A double parliamentary defeat that, according to two Spanish newspapers, is said to be pushing Pedro Sánchez to consider the possibility of early elections.

El País reports that the premier could announce as early as today, Monday, October 5, whether to proceed with an immediate bringing forward of the vote. La Vanguardia, citing sources from Moncloa and the president’s aides, goes further into detail: Sánchez’s entourage reportedly puts the probability of early elections at 70%, against 30% attributed to continuing the legislature. Among the dates considered for a possible vote is November 29, 2026.

The two outlets agree that the decision remains solely in the hands of the head of government, but differ in details: El País focuses on the timing of the announcement, while La Vanguardia quantifies in percentage terms the internal leanings within the executive. Neither source reports direct confirmation from Sánchez.

The rejection of the two housing decrees comes at a moment when the Spanish government had staked that issue as a test of its parliamentary majority. The double negative vote in Congress strips the government of a legislative tool on a topic sensitive to public opinion, and now opens the scenario of negotiations over the election date which, according to the cited sources, could conclude as early as today.

November 29 remains for now the only concrete date to have emerged from the sources consulted by the two newspapers, in a scenario the Spanish government has not yet publicly confirmed.