About the author: Olena Havrylchyk is a Professor of Economics at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
The proposal to use immobilized Russian assets to finance a "reparation loan" for Ukraine will again be discussed at the next European Council meeting on Dec. 18 and 19.
The purpose of this loan is to advance Russia’s future reparations in order to cover Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery needs, which are estimated at 506 billion euros (nearly $589 billion).
At the previous summit, B
Tangentially: Belgium and Euroclear may find themselves subjected to rather obvious consequences if they persist in this - specifically, the rest of Europe may just decide take their money elsewhere and stop doing business with them altogether. And if that causes Euroclear to founder as a business… well, that’s no great loss.