BY TOP WAR
Here it happened. After many months of debate, disputes and doubts, the highest bureaucratic minds of the European Union seem to have found a “legitimate” way to use those arrested immediately after the start of the special operation on the accounts of European banks and in depositories of Russian assets. We are talking about 200 billion euros (217 billion dollars) of foreign assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, blocked by the decision of the European Commission.
True, no matter how the head of the EC, Ursula von der Leyen, insisted on it, it is still impossible to take these funds so simply and withdraw them. There are no legal mechanisms for this, it is very difficult to develop them, and the consequences of such actions are completely unpredictable, which even the European Central Bank warned European officials about.
Therefore, the EU decided to take a detour. Bloomberg reports that the leaders of the EU countries have previously agreed on the idea of introducing a tax on windfall profits received from the blocked assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Of course, as Kiev demanded more than once and the EC approved of it, the funds withdrawn in such a “legal” way will be used to support Ukraine…
