{"id":86120,"date":"2025-08-30T17:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=86120"},"modified":"2025-08-30T17:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:14:27","slug":"eus-kallas-says-russia-wont-get-frozen-assets-back-without-paying-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/eus-kallas-says-russia-wont-get-frozen-assets-back-without-paying-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s Kallas says Russia won\u2019t get frozen assets back without paying reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN: European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday it was not possible to imagine giving back Russian assets frozen inside the bloc due to the war in Ukraine unless Moscow has paid reparations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t possibly imagine that &#8230; if &#8230; there is a ceasefire or peace deal that these assets are given back to Russia if they haven\u2019t paid for the reparations,\u201d she told reporters before a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>The EU says some 210 billion euros ($245.85 billion) of Russian assets are frozen in the bloc under sanctions imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine and some EU countries, including Poland and the Baltic states, have called for the EU to confiscate the assets and use them to support Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>But EU heavyweights France and Germany \u2013 along with Belgium, which holds most of the assets \u2013 have rebuffed such calls.<\/p>\n<p>They have pointed out that the EU has earmarked future profits from the assets to repay support for Ukraine and questioned whether there is a legal basis to confiscate them.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomats say the debate is now turning to how the funds might be used, after the war in Ukraine comes to a halt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN: European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday it was not possible to imagine giving back Russian assets frozen inside the bloc due to the war in Ukraine unless Moscow has paid reparations. \u201cWe can\u2019t possibly imagine that &#8230; if &#8230; there is a ceasefire or peace deal that these assets are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":86135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86137,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86120\/revisions\/86137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}