In Europe, and particularly in France, the stress will increase to know the frozen Russian property | EUROtoday

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Three years after the invasion of Ukraine, the stress rises in order that Europe hardens its sanctions towards Moscow. With a key query: can it grasp the Russian property it has frozen, so as to finance the Ukrainian protection? A questioned query since Donald Trump stopped army help in Ukraine and thus strengthened the Russian risk.

In France, it divides the political world, and will likely be on the coronary heart of a debate within the National Assembly, Wednesday, March 12, on the idea of a proposal for decision of the deputy (Union of Democrats and Independents) of the Yvelines Laurent Mazaury and his group (freedoms, impartial, abroad and territories, Liot), which calls to strengthen help for kyiv however with out going as far as to grab the Russian property.

A competing textual content providing to make use of them, was co-signed on Monday by environmental deputies, socialists, macronists and Liot, together with the primary secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, and Prisca Thevenot, former spokesperson for presidency (from January to September 2024) by Gabriel Attal. In addition, in Europe, 140 winners of the Nobel Prize, together with Lech Walesa, Joseph Stiglitz, Orhan Pamuk and Patrick Modiano, additionally requested the member states to grab Russian property, in an open letter printed on March 3.

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