{"id":1330988,"date":"2025-12-10T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-eu-plans-to-adopt-a-permanent-freeze-on-russian-assets\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:02:12","slug":"the-eu-plans-to-adopt-a-permanent-freeze-on-russian-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-eu-plans-to-adopt-a-permanent-freeze-on-russian-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU plans to adopt a permanent freeze on Russian assets."},"content":{"rendered":"

European Union countries are considering the possibility of expediting a decision on the permanent freezing of Russian assets worth 210 billion euros.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Financial Times reports this.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The main reason is the danger of a possible veto by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.<\/p>\n

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According to the publication, European officials are eager to quickly activate the emergency powers mechanism, which would allow them to bypass national vetoes when extending sanctions. This step should ensure the stability of the EU’s position in the upcoming peace talks on the war in Ukraine, which are being held with the participation of the United States.<\/p>\n

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European diplomats also want to separate the asset freeze decision from the discussion regarding a large loan to Ukraine. Last week, the European Commission proposed using proceeds from Russian assets to provide Kyiv with a \u20ac90 billion loan over two years. To achieve this, the assets would need to be frozen indefinitely, rather than every six months, as is currently the case, when sanctions extensions require unanimity from all 27 member states.<\/p>\n

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Hungary has traditionally opposed increased aid to Ukraine and regularly threatens to block sanctions. Brussels fears Orb\u00e1n could resort to a veto, especially if the Trump administration decides to ease sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n

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To mitigate this risk, the European Commission proposes invoking Article 122 of the EU Treaties, which allows for qualified majority decisions in cases of extraordinary economic circumstances. This would effectively deprive Hungary of the ability to block asset-related decisions.<\/p>\n

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EU leaders are expected to discuss a mechanism for using frozen Russian assets for a “reparations loan” to Ukraine at their summit on December 18-19.<\/p>\n

It was previously reported that global oil prices fell to their lowest levels in a month the day before.<\/a><\/p>\n

As a reminder, Russian budget revenues from oil and gas sales by the end of November could decline by approximately 35% compared to November of last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

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European Union countries are considering the possibility of expediting a decision on the permanent freezing of Russian assets worth 210 billion euros. The Financial Times reports this. The main reason is the danger of a possible veto by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. According to the publication, European officials are eager to quickly activate the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1004802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76874,76875,76871],"class_list":["post-1330988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}