The EU has figured out how to “force” Russia to pay Ukraine for the war: details of the plan

Will Ukraine be given money from frozen Russian assets/Channel 24 Collage (Photo: Getty Images and from the social network X Mamera)

The European Commission must approve the use of taxation on frozen Russian assets. They want to use this money to help Ukraine.

The corresponding information was announced at a briefing on December 11 in Brussels by the official representative of the European Commission, Eric Mamer. The draft law should be voted on in the next few days, writes 24 Channel.

What is known about probable assistance to Ukraine

The College will approve the proposal of the commission and the high representative (EU Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell – Channel 24) about immobilization of income from the assets of the Central Bank of Russia, said Eric Mamer.

Interfax-Ukraine also explained that Mamer assured that a decision could be made as early as December 12.

By the way, the media wrote that if the European Commission approves the proposal on December 12, then on December 14-15 it will be considered by the heads of state and government of the EU countries at the summit in Brussels.

Will the corresponding decision be made

Bloomberg previously wrote that the European Union is moving forward with a proposal to tax profits from more than 200 billion euro ($218 billion) of frozen Russian Central Bank assets to help Ukraine's recovery despite concerns from several EU member states.

Person , familiar from the discussion, explained to reporters that the draft plan would note that:

• a number of issues raised by EU member states still need decision;
• The EU proposal will not interfere with national taxes or other measures.

Journalists wrote that this issue divided the alliance of 27 countries. In particular, it is known that Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Luxembourg expressed caution in speeding up the process. They:

• called for a more gradual approach;
• told others last week EU ambassadors that the EU executive should start with a more informal document to continue narrowing down the different options for using the profits. After all, in their opinion, it is premature to put forward a legal proposal.

However, the commission said that EU leaders had said executive power of the bloc to speed up work on the proposal, – the publication wrote. money. We are talking about several billion dollars out of 300 available.