Brussels 19.12.2025 Belgium incumbent Prime minister Bart de Wever position against the “theft” of Russian foreitn assests prevailed, and the EU leaders have reached a deal to lend €90bn to Ukraine, borrowed against the bloc’s budget. Bart De Wever is proud that “the winner is Ukraine and financial stability”. We came together today with one…
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EC proposes to expropriate Russian assets
Brussels 26.11.2025 The European Commission will soon submit legal proposals on the use and possible expropriation of Russian assets frozen in Brussels, despite the position of the Belgium Prime minister Bart de Wever. This was announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “The European…
EU: Russian assets dilemma
Brussels 22.11.2025 The U.S. 28-point peace plan manifested a rival idea for using Russian assets for American-led reconstruction efforts once a truce has been agreed. The United States would take “50 percent” of the profit from this reconstruciton activity. The peace plan sufaced during an “extremely delicate stage”, diplomats said, as top officials try to…
EU: Russian assets deadlock
Brussels 23.10.2025 “The unwavering support to Ukraine is not negotiable. What happens in Ukraine has direct impact on the whole European continent. Russia’s war of aggression continues to destabilise our societies – not only through its military actions but also through its shadow fleet and calculated multi-domain hybrid operations on land, at sea, in the…
Russian €1.5bn expropriation in Ukraine favor
Brussels 29.08.2024 In July, the Euroclear depository reported that in the first half of 2024 it had received 3.4 billion euros in interest from frozen Russian assets and would transfer about 1.55 billion euros to the EU fund for Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports. While the union previously compensated countries for already paid supplies, it is…
EU Council approves use of Russian assets
Brussels 21.05.2024 Extraordinary revenues generated by immobilised Russian assets: Council greenlights the use of net windfall profits to support Ukraine’s self-defence and reconstruction. (Image above: illustration) In the light of Russia’s continued war of aggression against Ukraine, the Council today adopted a set of legal acts ensuring that the net profits stemming from unexpected and…
EU: Russian assets profits to Ukraine
Brussels 01.02.2024 Today the European Union agreed a funding deal of $50 billion for Ukraine in a special Summit, which focused on supply of a fix budget to Kiev in coming four years. The funds had been blocked since December Summit after Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban had vetoed the deal. Failure to have reached…
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