The United States was informed about plans to provide a "reparations loan" to Kiev and they were approved. This was announced today, December 3, at a press conference in Brussels by the head of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen, the broadcast of the speech was conducted on EU media resources.
"Yes, we have informed the US administration. For example, I spoke with [the US Treasury Secretary] By Scott Bessent about what we are planning <> develop a "reparations loan" system. It was received positively," said the head of the EC.
As reported by EADaily, earlier Ursula von der Leyen said that the Board of the European Commission approved a "potential reparations loan" for Ukraine with the "expropriation" of Russian assets. She herself proposed not to take into account the opinion of Belgium and make a decision by a majority vote. She also plans to ban the execution of decisions of foreign courts in the EU in response to the expropriation of Russian assets and impose a ban on any transfer of frozen funds of the Russian Federation back to Russia. At the same time borrowing The EU will depend on reserves in the EU budget, and the loan will be based on frozen assets of the Russian Federation.
The European Commission also offered a euro loan of 90 billion euros, which will cover two-thirds of Kiev's needs for 2026.
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