'The Key to Ending the War Is in Brussels' — Ukrainians React to Belgium's Russian Asset Loan Opposition
Belgian Prime Minister De Wever highlights legal and security concerns over confiscating Russian sovereign assets amid direct Kremlin threats of eternal retaliation.
- In a La Libre interview published on December 3, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said expectations of a Russian defeat are 'a fairy tale' and 'a complete illusion', adding Moscow warned Belgium of 'eternal retaliation' if assets were confiscated.
- Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever says Belgium faces 'enormous pressure' as proposals to seize frozen Russian sovereign assets are labeled 'theft', noting no modern precedent exists since German funds in World War II were only frozen.
- These frozen assets belong to the Central Bank of Russia, and EU officials suspect Belgium has kept revenues from them, a concern Politico recently analyzed.
- The European Commission is urgently drafting a legal solution to address Belgium's concerns and enable loans to Ukraine, while De Wever said frozen Russian assets must be returned once the war ends.
- De Wever cautioned that Russia is not losing and warned that a defeat for a nuclear-armed country could be destabilizing and undesirable to prevent instability.
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'The key to ending the war is in Brussels' — Ukrainians react to Belgium's Russian asset loan opposition
Ukrainians say that Belgium's Prime Minister Bart de Wever holds the key to Russia's defeat, after he said that Russia's loss in Ukraine was a "total illusion." De Wever was speaking in an interview with Belgian newspaper La Libre on Dec. 2, the day before the European Commission announced a "reparations loan," a plan that could lend up to 210 billion euros in immobilized Russian central bank reserves to Kyiv. "But who really believes that Russi…
It is undesirable for Russia to lose the war in Ukraine, because that would mean instability within the nuclear superpower. But to think that Moscow could possibly lose is pure illusion. That is what Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever thinks, who this week in an interview with the daily La Libre once again rejected the seizure of frozen Russian assets.
The alleged defeat of the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine is a "base and complete illusion" by Bart de Wever.
Belgium believes Russia will not lose the war in Ukraine, and claims of defeat are "a tall tale and a complete illusion." Therefore, the assets will have to be returned to the Kremlin after the war. Russia openly threatened Belgium with "eternal retaliation" if it confiscates the assets. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing a statement by Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever in an interview with La Libre. Wever stated that there is "incredib…
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