{"id":640576,"date":"2025-12-18T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640576\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:49:14","slug":"ecbs-lagarde-warns-against-breaking-eu-law-with-ukraine-loan-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640576\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB\u2019s Lagarde warns against breaking EU law with Ukraine loan \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU leaders will find a solution to the problem of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-council-summit-ukraine-aid-russian-frozen-assets-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how to get money to Ukraine<\/a> but must stay on the right side of the law, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference in Frankfurt after the ECB\u2019s Governing Council meeting, Lagarde said she was \u201cconfident\u201d that heads of government meeting in Brussels would thrash out a mechanism for lending to Kyiv, but immediately warned against expecting the ECB to underwrite it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are an area of the world which praises itself for respecting the rule of law,\u201d Lagarde said. \u201cI\u2019m sure that there are solutions that can be debated and discussed, and &#8230; constructions that can be elaborated, but it\u2019s not for the central bank to actually encourage [or]support  a mechanism under which we would be called upon \u2014 and scheduled \u2014 to breach Article 123 of the Treaty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU leaders will find a solution to the problem of how to get money to Ukraine but must&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[331,1789,6725,472,2000,299,474,7338,332,657,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-640576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-central-banks","11":"tag-christine-lagarde","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-finance","15":"tag-rule-of-law","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115741600352867584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640576","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=640576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}