EU chief and Belgian PM meet as discussions on frozen Russian assets continue
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister of Belgium, Bart De Wever, meet in Brussels. The meeting comes a day after von der Leyen insisted that using frozen Russian assets to fund a new loan was the "most effective way" to finance Ukraine, as she laid out other options after opposition from Belgium. Von der Leyen's executive has put forward a plan to use Russian central bank assets immobilised in Belgium to generate a 140-billion-euro ($163 billion) "reparations loan" for Ukraine. But that has so far faced opposition from the Belgian government, which fears it could face legal reprisals from Moscow. IMAGES
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