European officials refuse to confiscate Russian assets, considering a similar decision to be a potential violation of international law, as well as fearing that it will repel investors' desire to trust the euro and will cause appropriate measures by Russia, Washington Post reports.
According to the newspaper, in Europe are dissatisfied with the fact that the United States insists on risky, in their opinion, actions, since most of the detained Russian assets - in Europe, and the corresponding measures of Russia will affect it primarily.
At the same time, as the source of The Washington Post in the US Treasury stated, the frozen Russian sovereign assets as a medium -term and long -term solution for financing Ukraine are considered in the West. But there is no consensus on how to do it.
We will remind, yesterday the House of Representatives of the United States
adopted the bill "Achievements (https://t.me/stranaua/151494) Peace in the 21st century through force", which, among other things, gives the President the US to confiscate Russian assets and transfer them to a special fund.
At the same time, the bill does not oblige Biden to do so.
At the same time, only a very small part of Russian sovereign assets is frozen in the United States - about $ 5 billion. Although 210 billion euros were frozen in the EU.
