Prime Minister Bart De Wever has ratcheted up opposition to the EU’s plot to use leverage frozen funds for a loan scheme to finance Kiev

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has warned that an EU plan to back a €140 billion loan for Ukraine with frozen Russian state assets risks wrecking the prospects for a peace deal and saddling his country with huge legal threats.

In a “strongly-worded letter” on Thursday to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cited by Politico, De Wever warned that the scheme – which would use the immobilized funds held at Brussels-based Euroclear as collateral for a “reparations loan” – is “fundamentally wrong”…

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