EU-Staats- und Regierungschefs wollen der Ukraine 90 Milliarden Euro leihen – können sich aber nicht auf die Verwendung russischer Vermögenswerte einigen

SS: In a shocking turn of events, the thing EU leaders have consistently [lied about](https://old.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/1pdw6nb/europe_exhausts_legal_tricks_on_frozen_russian/ns8ok8h/) has failed to materialise and they’ve seemingly been forced to actually make commitments rather than just talking.

It will be interesting to see how they’ve actually managed to do this, because arguably they’ve been playing pretty fast and loose with EU law in recent months, including the move to *permanently* freeze russian assets. This article is worth a read on the compliance with EU law and possible (or likely) consequences. I somehow doubt this was a consensus decision of all member states.

> [Should the Court annul the regulation—a highly probable outcome once Belgium files—**the assets will need to be released, the loans will become illegal, and both the Union and Euroclear could face joint liability in the hundreds of billions**.](https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/12/13/reassessing-the-use-of-article-122-tfeu-a-legal-and-political-misstep/)

Good, shows the money was always there but the EU would have preferred to use Russia’s rather than their own.

It could also buy time for the EU to amend it’s own legislation to unlock these Russian assets.