EU ambassadors had previously agreed on the European Commission’s proposal to use revenues from frozen EU assets “for the reconstruction of Ukraine”. This was reported by TASS.
The Belgian EU delegation said in a statement that ambassadors had just agreed on a proposal to use proceeds from frozen assets to support the reconstruction of Ukraine.
Arnoldas Pranckevičius, formerly Lithuania’s Ambassador to the European Union (EU) statedIt was stated that the seizure of Russia’s frozen assets could be dangerous for political unity, but such measures should not be feared.
The ambassador stated that the goals of EU countries are “much bigger, they are to find legal ways to seize all the frozen assets of the Central Bank of Russia in order to use them to rebuild Ukraine.”
It was previously reported that there was no agreement in the EU on the seizure of Russian assets. European authorities are more interested in the legal consequences than the political issue of transferring Russian assets to third countries.
Previously at the European Commission named The amount of Russian sovereign assets frozen in the European Union.