“Taking Putin’s money and leaving the risks with [Belgium]. That’s not going to happen,” Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said in New York. Most of the assets are held in Euroclear, a Brussels-based clearing house – making Belgium a key player in EU negotiations

“Taking Putin’s money and leaving the risks with [Belgium]. That’s not going to happen, let me be very clear about that,” Prime Minister Bart De Wever on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.

“If countries see that central bank money can disappear if European politicians see fit, they might decide to withdraw their reserves from the eurozone,” he added.

  • Quittenbrot@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Waging a war of aggression for more than three years, massacring villages, abducting children… I don’t think the bar is particularly low here…

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      51·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, and specifically in Europe, you were right about that. It’s hard to imagine that allowing Russia a pass wouldn’t just amount to total neutrality.

      At the other end, “give your money to Europe and you can have it back when we feel like it” would being shooting yourselves in the foot. That’s too far in the other direction.