I’ll take a bit of that. I’ve found out Games Workshop shit is expensive
Without Swift or Euroclear it would probably only be 5% of that.
Hopefully we can keep these companies here.
OK. 10 000 000 people in Belgium (approx.). € 58 000 000 000 to share. That’s about € 5800 for each Belgian.
My account Nr : 000 – 1348667 – 48
Thank you.
How is this not arbitrary collective punishment? This violates our constitution.
In other news, the government suddenly fixed the budget with a surplus!
(I wish)
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Maybe Ukraine needs it more than we do…
Well well well… looks like our begroting just got fixed
>According to the statement, the country also froze EUR 191 billion of Russian financial transactions, which makes it the leader in the total volume of frozen assets in the European Union.
In total it’s about 249 billion.
In the long term, it’s a terrible move to gain trust in the Euro.
With this action, you tell countries/organizations/people that we can freeze your assets in euros when we like it.
Belgium/Europe/USA undermines the meaning of “assets” or property because they can freeze your money when they like it.
Belgium/Europe tells countries/organizations/people that they only can use Euros so long the USA, Europe or Belgium approve it. If you have a problem with us, we freeze your money in Euro.
At the same time, if Belgium/Europe can do it, what stops other non-western countries to do it in their country, with assets from Europeans?
They only have to find an “excuse”.
To protect themselves, non-western countries start to trade in their own currency. Sell your assets in euros in Europe, and replace them with our national currency.
Like Russia, accepting lesser payments in Euro and changing to transactions in Ruble.
Another nice example is that for oil: some countries step away from the USD and replace the payments with their national currency.
Take for example Saudi Arabia which in the name of Saudi Minister of Finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, told Bloomberg that they plan to accept other currencies than the USD for oil. (Jan 2023, Davos)
Or the Thai king with billions of investments in Euro, especially in Germany.
Officially, the political leader of Thailand came to power with a military coup, he’s an ex-general.
Europe or Germany only have to decide, Thailand is ruled by a dictator, and we can freeze all the assets of the Thai king because he represents a dictatorship.
If only we could seize it. Just imagine how amazing our public transport could be if we injected 58 billion into it
The russians were right after all… Europe will freeze in the winter!
They just forgot to clarify we will be doing the freezing.
why freeze? just take it at this point. take it and use it to pay the pile of government debt
Proud of my country
and half of the money will be distributed to the ministers.
I’m actually not surprised at all. If anyone knows how to take money from others, it’s Belgium.
Sure, it’s normally taxes for its own nationals, but whatever.
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I’ll take a bit of that. I’ve found out Games Workshop shit is expensive
Without Swift or Euroclear it would probably only be 5% of that.
Hopefully we can keep these companies here.
OK. 10 000 000 people in Belgium (approx.). € 58 000 000 000 to share. That’s about € 5800 for each Belgian.
My account Nr : 000 – 1348667 – 48
Thank you.
How is this not arbitrary collective punishment? This violates our constitution.
In other news, the government suddenly fixed the budget with a surplus!
(I wish)
[removed]
Maybe Ukraine needs it more than we do…
Well well well… looks like our begroting just got fixed
>According to the statement, the country also froze EUR 191 billion of Russian financial transactions, which makes it the leader in the total volume of frozen assets in the European Union.
In total it’s about 249 billion.
In the long term, it’s a terrible move to gain trust in the Euro.
With this action, you tell countries/organizations/people that we can freeze your assets in euros when we like it.
Belgium/Europe/USA undermines the meaning of “assets” or property because they can freeze your money when they like it.
Belgium/Europe tells countries/organizations/people that they only can use Euros so long the USA, Europe or Belgium approve it. If you have a problem with us, we freeze your money in Euro.
At the same time, if Belgium/Europe can do it, what stops other non-western countries to do it in their country, with assets from Europeans?
They only have to find an “excuse”.
To protect themselves, non-western countries start to trade in their own currency. Sell your assets in euros in Europe, and replace them with our national currency.
Like Russia, accepting lesser payments in Euro and changing to transactions in Ruble.
Another nice example is that for oil: some countries step away from the USD and replace the payments with their national currency.
Take for example Saudi Arabia which in the name of Saudi Minister of Finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, told Bloomberg that they plan to accept other currencies than the USD for oil. (Jan 2023, Davos)
Or the Thai king with billions of investments in Euro, especially in Germany.
Officially, the political leader of Thailand came to power with a military coup, he’s an ex-general.
Europe or Germany only have to decide, Thailand is ruled by a dictator, and we can freeze all the assets of the Thai king because he represents a dictatorship.
If only we could seize it. Just imagine how amazing our public transport could be if we injected 58 billion into it
The russians were right after all… Europe will freeze in the winter!
They just forgot to clarify we will be doing the freezing.
why freeze? just take it at this point. take it and use it to pay the pile of government debt
Proud of my country
and half of the money will be distributed to the ministers.
I’m actually not surprised at all. If anyone knows how to take money from others, it’s Belgium.
Sure, it’s normally taxes for its own nationals, but whatever.