When you slap tariffs on penguins and they politely ice you away.
Cold economics, colder consequences.
When you slap tariffs on penguins and they politely ice you away.
Cold economics, colder consequences.
https://www.europesays.com/1960899/ Switzerland reports rise in frozen Russian assets #EconomicSanctions #EUSanctionsAgainstRussia #FrozenAssets #Moscow. #Nachrichten #Nouvelles #schweiz #Suisse #SwissCompanies #SwissFrancs #SwissGovernment #switzerland
Can’t find a way to utilise those frozen Russian assets for rebuilding #ukraine?
Maria Kaljurand says: ”Try harder!”
Because Russia will never pay. It never has, and we have no reason to suspect it ever will.
Seizing the assets is right.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xf_p2_yTFu0
#eu #politics #frozenassets
Nothing prevents the EU from confiscating #Russia 's #frozenassets and giving them to #Ukraine.
You can just do things.
EU transfers Ukraine $1.6 billion of proceeds from frozen Russian assets
The funds will be used to support the “defense and reconstruction of Ukraine,” von der Leyen said.
“There is no better symbol or use for the #Kremlin's money than to make Ukraine and all of Europe a safer place to live.”
https://kyivindependent.com/eu-transfers-ukraine-1-6-billion-in-proceeds-from-frozen-russian-assets/
Ukraine to receive $1.5 billion in frozen Russian assets in August
The designated funds will finance the “acquisition of priority military equipment,” including air defense, artillery systems, and ammunition.
#EU to start transfer of profits from frozen #Russian #assets ‘before summer break,’ EU official says
“We estimate that our measures would make up to 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) available this year, and we expect to make a first payment of 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) before the summer break,”
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-assets-kyiv-eu-summer-break/
G7 agrees on transfer of $50 billion in profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine
Western countries have frozen $300 billion in Russian assets, they can only access the income generated by these funds, approximately $3.2 billion annually
Setting up a fund with loans to be repaid using this income offers immediate support to Ukraine beyond this amount
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine
#FrozenAssets
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Explaining Washington’s #REPO Act - confiscation of frozen Russian assets
Legal barriers & lobbying so far held up transfer of funds to Ukraine
The bill overcomes the main legal concern, Russia’s sovereign immunity, by paving the way for the Biden administration to confiscate the assets due to Russia’s violation of #InternationalLaw.