A bitter blow for Merz and von der Leyen | News247 – Greece
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Polityka hopes that this has also clarified relations with Russia:
“A formal confiscation of Russian assets has been avoided, but this is an interest‑free loan only in name. In practice, it amounts to 90 billion euros in non‑repayable aid for Kyiv (in tranches to be paid out in 2026–27), which in theory is to be offset in a reparations agreement with Russia, which, however, no one expects to materialise in the foreseeable future. … The political advantage of such a reparations loan over other financial instruments also lies in the fact that Europe thus imposes irreversible losses on Russia, which would for a long time slow any attempts to normalise relations with Moscow without a prior peace with Ukraine.”
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