{"id":505667,"date":"2025-10-17T02:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505667\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:13:10","slug":"brussels-eyes-e25b-more-in-russian-state-assets-across-eu-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505667\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels eyes \u20ac25B more in Russian state assets across EU \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe legal feasibility of extending the Reparations Loan approach towards such assets has not been assessed in detail,\u201d the document continued. \u201cSuch an assessment would need to take place before taking a decision on further steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The document outlines the \u201cdesign principles\u201d for the Ukraine Reparations Loan initiative that will be up for debate ahead of next week\u2019s EU summit in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>EU leaders are expected to have a broad discussion on the initiative and to call on the Commission to present a proposal for the loan. EU officials expect the bill to arrive quickly, and to serve as a platform for further talks on the financial engineering needed to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>Finance ministers will discuss the bill when they next meet in November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guarantees and spending targets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other design principles include national guarantees for the loan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belgium-ukraine-loan-russian-assets-bart-de-wever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a key demand from Belgium<\/a>, which fears Moscow could send an army of lawyers its way to retrieve the sanctioned cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA solid guarantee and liquidity structure should be put in place to ensure that the EU can always honour its obligations to Euroclear,\u201d the document continued. \u201cFor that purpose, it is suggested to build a system of bilateral guarantees from Member States to the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe legal feasibility of extending the Reparations Loan approach towards such assets has not been assessed in detail,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3427,331,1789,33108,2000,299,5187,155245,1699,20327,18421,1197,2441,152305,7339],"class_list":{"0":"post-505667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-banking","9":"tag-banks","10":"tag-belgium","11":"tag-economic-governance","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-monetary-union","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-eurozone","18":"tag-finance-and-banking","19":"tag-investment","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-risk-and-compliance","22":"tag-russia-sanctions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115387092502893730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505667","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=505667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}