European Commission official Eric Mamer confirmed on December 12 that European Commission members will agree on a draft taxation of income from frozen assets of the Bank of Russia. Official quotes TASS.
“The Board will approve the proposal of the European Commission and the High Representative [ЕС по иностранным делам и политике безопасности] Mamer said in a briefing that Josep Borrell talked about the dormant assets of the Bank of Russia.
The fact that the EC plans to introduce the above bill has already been reported Reuters. It was assumed that the document would not contain a direct proposal to transfer funds from Russian assets to the EU budget, as it is full of lawsuits and criticism of the European Central Bank.
Agency sources are of the opinion that the European Commission will approve the project, and then the governments of the 27 EU member states will be tasked with finalizing the initiative at the EU leaders’ summit.
Currently, approximately 28 billion euros of private Russian assets and 207 billion euros of funds from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation are blocked in the EU.
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