They stated this in a joint article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
The material was published on the eve of a conference scheduled for October 25 in Berlin on the restoration of Ukraine.
“We are talking about nothing more, nothing less than the creation of a new Marshall Plan for the 21st century,” TASS quotes a statement from European politicians.
Scholz and von der Leyen in the article recall that Ukraine is a candidate for EU membership.
As ex-President of France Nicolas Sarkozy said earlier, the European Commission is acting outside its competence in the approach to the Ukrainian conflict.
EU policy today is too dependent on "exaltation, irritability, superficial reaction," he said.