{"id":488800,"date":"2025-10-10T16:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488800\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:48:16","slug":"britain-france-germany-move-closer-to-giving-russian-assets-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488800\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain, France, Germany move closer to giving Russian assets to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (Reuters) -The leaders of Britain, France and Germany said on Friday they had agreed in a phone call to move towards using the value of immobilised Russian assets to support Ukraine&#8217;s armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement published by the German government, the E3 leaders said they would do this in cooperation with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are ready to progress towards using, in a coordinated way, the value of the immobilised Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine\u2019s armed forces and thus bring Russia to the negotiation table,&#8221; read the statement by Britain&#8217;s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, France&#8217;s President Emmanuel Macron and Germany&#8217;s Chancellor Friedrich Merz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We aim to do this in close cooperation with the United States of America,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>Thestatement added that they welcomed the Gaza ceasefire agreement, pledging to resume humanitarian aid as soon as the ceasefire took hold.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Thomas Escritt, Editing by Louise Heavens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -The leaders of Britain, France and Germany said on Friday they had agreed in a phone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-488800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115350898126493912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}