{"id":155891,"date":"2026-08-30T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/155891\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:40:38","slug":"eu-heavyweights-call-on-brussels-to-reignite-frozen-russian-asset-debate-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/155891\/","title":{"rendered":"EU heavyweights call on Brussels to reignite frozen Russian asset debate \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUkraine needs more financial support in both the short and long term,\u201d said the letter, which copied in the Commission\u2019s economy and enlargement bosses, Valdis Dombrovskis and Marta Kos. \u201cWe believe now is the time to revert to the issue of how we can make further use of Russia\u2019s immobilised assets for the benefit of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EU leaders in December failed to agree on a plan that would leverage \u20ac210 billion of frozen Russian state assets, most of which reside in the Brussels-based depository Euroclear, to underpin a massive loan to Kyiv. Belgium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belgium-shoots-down-eu-commission-offer-unblock-russia-assets-plan-ukraine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resisted the plan<\/a> and demanded unlimited guarantees from the rest of the EU to protect itself against a legal and financial backlash from Moscow, a request that EU leaders deemed too steep.<\/p>\n<p>EU leaders instead decided to raise common debt from financial markets to fund a \u20ac90 billion loan to Ukraine. The EU will disburse the loan over the next 18 months, subject to reforms that the Ukrainian government must carry out.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy wants the EU to frontload the money now, although it&#8217;ll be difficult to convince all EU capitals to advance the funds without Kyiv implementing the reforms first.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian government has in recent weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/belgium-open-using-frozen-russian-assets-help-ukraine-europe-shares-risks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> it\u2019s open to returning to the Russian assets debate but reaffirmed its demands on the rest of the bloc to provide financial safeguards against Russian retaliation \u2014 a key issue that has not gone unnoticed in The Hague, Madrid, Stockholm, and Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are well aware that this question is complex, and that we must look for solutions that take legitimate interests into account,\u201d said the letter, calling on the Commission\u2019s experts to explore \u201cnew options\u201d that \u00a0\u201censure that the risk rests with all EU Member States and where no Member State holds a disproportionate burden.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cUkraine needs more financial support in both the short and long term,\u201d said the letter, which copied in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[14166,6020,211,210,13082,29316,13084,770,56390,4157,3270,286,19378,238,15077,4581,241,3271,4583],"class_list":["post-155891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-asset-management","tag-banks","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-economic-governance","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-european-monetary-union","tag-eurozone","tag-finance-and-banking","tag-investment","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-markets","tag-marta-kos","tag-russia","tag-russia-sanctions","tag-sanctions","tag-ukraine","tag-valdis-dombrovskis","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117185926080221293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}