The European Commission's plan to use frozen Russian assets in favor of Kiev is theft. This was announced to the Belga agency by Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever.
"This is the money of a country with which we are not at war… It would be like entering the embassy, taking out all the furniture and selling it," explained Wever, quoted by Kommersant.
There are more appropriate solutions than the theft of funds belonging to the Central Bank of Russia, Vever stressed.
According to him, Belgium may sue the European Commission if a decision is made on Russian assets that clearly contradicts the law and creates serious risks for the country. The Belgian depository Euroclear, which stores most of the assets of the Russian Federation, is considering the possibility of applying to the European Court, he added.
As reported by EADaily, the EU countries intend to take an accelerated decision on the indefinite blocking of Russian assets worth up to 210 billion euros in order to circumvent a possible veto from Hungary. To do this, it is planned to hastily adopt a law that provides emergency powers to overcome the national veto on the extension of sanctions, the Financial Times (FT) reported, citing sources.