Belgium’s prime minister claims the European Union’s plan to use frozen Russian state assets to finance Ukraine could jeopardize the chances of a potential peace deal to end the nearly four-year war.
Belgian support for the plan is crucial because the assets the EU wants to use are held by the Belgian financial institution Euroclear.
At a summit last month, EU leaders tried to agree on a plan to use 140 billion euros of frozen Russian state assets in Europe as a loan to Kiev, but failed to secure Belgian support.
“Progressing too quickly in the proposed loan program for reparations would have, as collateral damage, the fact that we as the EU are effectively preventing the achievement of a final peace agreement,” De Wever said in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which Reuters had access to.
(Vijesti.ba/Fena)
