The European Commission has disbursed an additional 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) to Ukraine, to be repaid with proceeds from frozen Russian assets, the commission announced on March 20.
Idk why they don’t just declare the Russian assets forfeit and straight up hand them all to Ukraine
Because then the EU loses potential leverage over Russia - whether to protect EUs own security or to push Russia into a peace deal.
It’s like shooting all the hostages.
Edit:
As another comment points out, it’s interest from the assets. So the assets are still intact, thus not triggering russians
The title is wrong. The money is not taken from the russian assets but rather interest earned from those assets. The original assets are left intact. FTA:
The European Commission has disbursed an additional 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) to Ukraine, to be repaid with proceeds from frozen Russian assets, the commission announced on March 20.
