Ahead of the summit, which touched on climate targets, the housing crisis and defense as well as the assets issue, POLITICO said De Wever, Slovakia’s Robert Fico, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz were likely to be the biggest thorns in the EU side.
As it turned out, De Wever was the only one who really followed through on his threats. He forced his fellow leaders to water down their language on assets and push any decision to December.
“I’m not a bad boy, we’re best boy in town,” he said. “If you talk about immobilized assets, we’re the very, very best.”
As custodian of the Euroclear depository, Belgium holds close to €170 billion of Russian cash reserves and is therefore most exposed to potential litigation and damages if the gambit is successfully challenged by Moscow.
Belgium warned during the talks that its key conditions for supporting using the funds in the form of a loan for Kyiv had not been met, according to four diplomats and officials. It had been seeking protections in the event of a judicial ruling against the move and burden-sharing in case it is forced to repay the money.
Ik ben enorm pro-EU, altijd geweest, maar dit vind ik nu eens absoluut schandalig. Hoe wij hier als België behandeld worden voor wat eigenlijk een heel redelijke eis is. Wij worden hier gewoon als stroman opgezet.
I’m so happy we got a senior politician with a strong party result in these difficult times, whether you like his ideas or not, to not stand down because of pressure or a promised top job in the EU or the U.N (like many of our previous PM’s). Not an N-VA fan, but Bart De Wever is slaying it. De Croo or Michel would have been on their knees with their pants down already.
Like him or not, De Wever is right. We need guarantees as a country
POLITICO, ´nuff said.
Not a fan nor voter of De Wever and generally pro EU but I do share his opinion here. Thank you for standing up for us, De Wever.
Belachelijke hit piece van activistische Politico journalisten. Ook niet verwonderlijk. D e journaliste, Hanne Cokelaere, is een trouwe Apache soldaat: [https://apache.be/auteur/5584](https://apache.be/auteur/5584) [https://www.politico.eu/author/hanne-cokelaere/](https://www.politico.eu/author/hanne-cokelaere/)
De Wever has the perfect personality for this dossier. He doesn’t seem to care that the whole of Europe thinks he’s a bad boy, even though he’s a good boy of course.
Eu wants to play Santa with all the risks for Belgium if it’s go wrong( enough to bankrupt us completely) and bdw say no. This time he really is a good boy
When the defenders of the so-called “rules-based order” want to disregard the rules and commit theft:
I wish people would understand his position. Without legal guarantees, it sets a precedent that any nation that falls below the expectations of its allies or other nations can have its assets seized by Belgium in Euroclear – increasing risk on having assets going through Euroclear which will almost certainly close and move to another European nation.
€170bn isn’t small change to Belgium – if that was to be given to Ukraine in the form of loans and Russia successfully challenges it, Belgium would be expected to hand it back to Russia. Potentially losing €340bn in the process.
I’m not BDWs fan nor am I fan of Russia but he’s right.
Wat voor nen titel is Da jong
Kijk eens naar wie de eigenaar is van Politico …. De laatste paar jaren is die outlet steeds minder neutraal geworden en steeds provocerender.
So we as a country need to lose all credibility and have an economic downturn because EU wants to unfreeze the russian assets at euroclear and give it to ukraine?
I’m very hawkish on Russia but yeah I don’t think Belgium can afford hundreds of billions of euros in fines if things go wrong
I know too little about global financial legislation or case law to take a position on his refusal. But what I do see here is that Wever slips comfortably back into his favorite role: that of the aggrieved victim.
170b is simply not an amount of money we *could* manage to reimburse if it bite us back in the ass.
Rioolgazet
Account van 1 jaar. Nooit ergens een reply op gemaakt…. Eerste post, dit artikel. Lijkt mij propaganda. Wat zou de reden kunnen zijn? Ons een meer verdeeld gevoel geven, wij tegen Europa. Het artikel kan mss echt zijn, maar de hoeveelheid, versterkt door op sociale medium te plaatsen, is beïnvloeding. Wees kritisch.
If Eu was standing fully garanteed, De Wever would allow it. he said so, so why are they not giving garantees ? because they know they do not want to be hold responsible
De Wever is totally right here. No legally binding guarantees, no money.
And this is not the first time that politico behaves like a garbage tier news website
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Ahead of the summit, which touched on climate targets, the housing crisis and defense as well as the assets issue, POLITICO said De Wever, Slovakia’s Robert Fico, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz were likely to be the biggest thorns in the EU side.
As it turned out, De Wever was the only one who really followed through on his threats. He forced his fellow leaders to water down their language on assets and push any decision to December.
“I’m not a bad boy, we’re best boy in town,” he said. “If you talk about immobilized assets, we’re the very, very best.”
As custodian of the Euroclear depository, Belgium holds close to €170 billion of Russian cash reserves and is therefore most exposed to potential litigation and damages if the gambit is successfully challenged by Moscow.
Belgium warned during the talks that its key conditions for supporting using the funds in the form of a loan for Kyiv had not been met, according to four diplomats and officials. It had been seeking protections in the event of a judicial ruling against the move and burden-sharing in case it is forced to repay the money.
Ik ben enorm pro-EU, altijd geweest, maar dit vind ik nu eens absoluut schandalig. Hoe wij hier als België behandeld worden voor wat eigenlijk een heel redelijke eis is. Wij worden hier gewoon als stroman opgezet.
I’m so happy we got a senior politician with a strong party result in these difficult times, whether you like his ideas or not, to not stand down because of pressure or a promised top job in the EU or the U.N (like many of our previous PM’s). Not an N-VA fan, but Bart De Wever is slaying it. De Croo or Michel would have been on their knees with their pants down already.
Like him or not, De Wever is right. We need guarantees as a country
POLITICO, ´nuff said.
Not a fan nor voter of De Wever and generally pro EU but I do share his opinion here. Thank you for standing up for us, De Wever.
Belachelijke hit piece van activistische Politico journalisten. Ook niet verwonderlijk. D e journaliste, Hanne Cokelaere, is een trouwe Apache soldaat: [https://apache.be/auteur/5584](https://apache.be/auteur/5584) [https://www.politico.eu/author/hanne-cokelaere/](https://www.politico.eu/author/hanne-cokelaere/)
De Wever has the perfect personality for this dossier. He doesn’t seem to care that the whole of Europe thinks he’s a bad boy, even though he’s a good boy of course.
Eu wants to play Santa with all the risks for Belgium if it’s go wrong( enough to bankrupt us completely) and bdw say no. This time he really is a good boy
When the defenders of the so-called “rules-based order” want to disregard the rules and commit theft:
I wish people would understand his position. Without legal guarantees, it sets a precedent that any nation that falls below the expectations of its allies or other nations can have its assets seized by Belgium in Euroclear – increasing risk on having assets going through Euroclear which will almost certainly close and move to another European nation.
€170bn isn’t small change to Belgium – if that was to be given to Ukraine in the form of loans and Russia successfully challenges it, Belgium would be expected to hand it back to Russia. Potentially losing €340bn in the process.
I’m not BDWs fan nor am I fan of Russia but he’s right.
Wat voor nen titel is Da jong
Kijk eens naar wie de eigenaar is van Politico …. De laatste paar jaren is die outlet steeds minder neutraal geworden en steeds provocerender.
So we as a country need to lose all credibility and have an economic downturn because EU wants to unfreeze the russian assets at euroclear and give it to ukraine?
Zoals ik [eerder al zei](https://www.reddit.com/r/belgium/comments/1oetkga/moeilijker_te_overtuigen_dan_trump_internationale/nl49apl/): riooljournalistiek. Belachelijke berichtgeving.
I’m very hawkish on Russia but yeah I don’t think Belgium can afford hundreds of billions of euros in fines if things go wrong
I know too little about global financial legislation or case law to take a position on his refusal. But what I do see here is that Wever slips comfortably back into his favorite role: that of the aggrieved victim.
170b is simply not an amount of money we *could* manage to reimburse if it bite us back in the ass.
Rioolgazet
Account van 1 jaar. Nooit ergens een reply op gemaakt…. Eerste post, dit artikel. Lijkt mij propaganda. Wat zou de reden kunnen zijn? Ons een meer verdeeld gevoel geven, wij tegen Europa. Het artikel kan mss echt zijn, maar de hoeveelheid, versterkt door op sociale medium te plaatsen, is beïnvloeding. Wees kritisch.
If Eu was standing fully garanteed, De Wever would allow it. he said so, so why are they not giving garantees ? because they know they do not want to be hold responsible
De Wever is totally right here. No legally binding guarantees, no money.
And this is not the first time that politico behaves like a garbage tier news website
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