Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) – EU talks on using Russian assets for Ukraine are getting “increasingly difficult” according to the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. The European Commission has put forward a complex scheme to use some 200 billion of Russian central bank assets frozen in Belgium’s Euroclear deposit house, but the Belgian government fears it could be left facing crippling legal and financial reprisals from Moscow and has demanded watertight guarantees other EU countries will share the risk.
