In Europe, they found the culprit for the failure of the plan to confiscate Russia's assets and this is not Belgium

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has become the "killer" of the European Commission's (EC) project to confiscate frozen Russian assets. The Financial Times writes about this with reference to a European diplomat.

It is reported that at the talks, French President Emmanuel Macron and Meloni expressed skepticism about whether they would support the expropriation scheme of assets. RF parliaments of their countries.

"The fact that the two largest EU countries opposed the plan "changed the mood" at the talks... Meloni was the killer," the source said, explaining that Macron was mostly silent.

Another European diplomat said that the complexity of the proposed The EC of the asset withdrawal scheme confused the leaders of the EU countries, even those who supported the initiative.

"It would never have worked. Something so technical and incomprehensible scared the leaders. It (the presentation of the EC plan — EADaily) felt like an ambush attack," he said.

According to another source close to the negotiations, "the use of assets was a bit of sorcery and it became too much.

Recall, the participants of the EU summit could not agree on the expropriation of frozen assets of Russia under the guise of a "reparations loan" to Ukraine. Instead of this option, it was decided to allocate an interest-free loan of 90 billion euros to Ukraine through collective loans from EU countries. At the same time, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic will not participate in this plan.