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Europe’s largest power is avoiding the back of efforts to get the above € 200bn of frozen Russian properties, while they draw plans for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
France and Germany, long term with a thorough seizure of properties held in the EU, referring to UK and other countries available.
French officials discussed a proposal for European chapters to remove properties if Moscow is the violation of a future Deal with the cease In Ukraine, said three people shortened into talks, as part of efforts to provide post-conflict security guarantee for Kyiv.
The discontinuation link supporters to see this as a way to prevent Russia to any agreement and give Kyiv with guarantee.
Talks will come between an increase in European efforts, headed by France and UK, to make a peace plannd Trump’s Donald Trump’s Donald Trump at the end of the household trump.
G7 allies ran € 300bn in Central Bank of Russia assets in 2022 after Moscow Full-scale invasion of Ukrainewhere most of the most – some € 190bn – Sit the central security deposit in Belgium, with a smaller amount made in France, UK, Japan, Switzerland, and US.
Today, the We are made of these assets – Most of the money bonds and government – used to pay g7 countries for $ 50bn worth of Ukrainian loans, but key properties are not touched.
Countries including Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states that have long been pushing for the seizure of key properties, but the main chapters, which seize concerns under international law.
European Central Bank is also concerned that the euro state is as a safe choice for foreign reserves to be placed in danger. Most assets are considered by the euro.
During the talks with Trump last week, Emmanuel Macron, French president, saying that the property is not immediate “about international law” but the negotiation of the end of the war “.
Chancellor-In-Wait Friedrich Merz declares that he will consider supporting a proposal involving the gravity of frozen properties in Russia, saying a person familiar with this matter. Merz talked to the Careetaker Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday to align positions ahead with a summit of EU leaders on Thursday. A scholz spokesman refuses to comment.
The Prime Minister of UK Sir Keir Starmer on Monday says London looks at how assets can be deployed. “Obviously used income and profits,” he told MPs, saying after signing a Volangymyr Zelenskyy agreement, Ukraine’s president, on the weekend for the UK Lending £ 2.26bn in Ukraine sponsored by profit from the imposed assets in Russia.
“In (undergoing) assets themselves, it is a complicated issue. It is not straightforward,” Starmmer added. “But I think we should do more, and we do so much to see what the possibilities are at least, with other countries.”
Two people familiar with the French proposal said well received by other European allies, but it is far from approval. A spokesman for Macron refuses to comment.
The camp in favor of the seizure given impetus by threat of Trump Administration to pull Ukraine’s military support. “Many countries are willing to use (frozen seizure in asset) as leverage,” said one.