The Belgian Parliament approved the government's decision on Russian assets

The Belgian Parliament welcomed the decision to refuse to transfer Russian assets frozen in the country to the European Commission, which intended to transfer these funds to Ukraine, Euractiv reports.

"Prime Minister of Belgium Bart de Wever was greeted in parliament with stormy applause when he rejected the accusations ... because of the country's concern about the European Commission's plan to use frozen Russian assets to secure a reparations loan to Kiev,"the article says.

The text indicates that Prime Minister de Wever put forward demands to the European Commission - in case of lifting sanctions from Moscow to share the burden of possible legal problems, to which there was no positive response.

"Any country in our place would have put forward exactly the same demands," the publication quotes the prime minister as saying.

After the SMO began, the European Union and the G7 countries blocked about half of Russia's foreign exchange reserves. More than 200 billion euros are in the EU, mainly in the accounts of Euroclear, one of the world's largest settlement and clearing systems, its office is located in Belgium.

Brussels, which promised to help Kiev for as long as necessary, has exhausted all available resources, and the community countries do not want to allocate money from their own budget. Against this background, the European Commission is seeking Belgium's consent to use Russian assets.

We are talking about an amount ranging from 185 to 210 billion euros in the framework of the so-called reparations loan. It is claimed that Ukraine will return it after the end of the conflict if Moscow "pays it material damage."

At the end of August, the Welt am Sonntag reported that from January to July The EU transferred 10.1 billion euros from the proceeds from the immobilized funds of the Bank of Russia to the Kiev authorities.

As a response, Moscow imposed restrictions: assets of foreign investors from unfriendly countries and income from them are accumulated on special accounts of type "C". They can be withdrawn only by decision of a special government commission.