Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever speaks during a press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (not pictured), at the Chancellery, in Berlin, Germany August 26, 2025. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Belgium's Prime Minister Bart De Wever said on Thursday he had asked other EU leaders to give guarantees they would share the risks if frozen Russian assets held in his country were used to finance loans to Ukraine.
At a summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday, European Union leaders expressed broad support for the idea of using Russian assets frozen in the West to provide a 140 billion euro ($164.5 billion) loan to Ukraine but said they still needed to sort out complex legal and financial aspects of the operation.
