EU chief and Belgian PM meet as discussions on frozen Russian assets continue

Quelle: AFP (Glomex)

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister of Belgium, Bart De Wever, meet in Brussels. The meeting comes a day after von der Leyen insisted that using frozen Russian assets to fund a new loan was the "most effective way" to finance Ukraine, as she laid out other options after opposition from Belgium. Von der Leyen's executive has put forward a plan to use Russian central bank assets immobilised in Belgium to generate a 140-billion-euro ($163 billion) "reparations loan" for Ukraine. But that has so far faced opposition from the Belgian government, which fears it could face legal reprisals from Moscow. IMAGES