At the moment, Belgium has blocked the assets of Russian oligarchs and organizations included in the sanctions list in the amount of 3.5 billion euros. Belgium is a leader among EU countries in this respect.
The 27 member states of the European Union have so far frozen a total of 18.9 billion euros in Russian funds. The leader among the EU countries is Belgium, which has so far blocked 3.5 billion euros of assets of Russian oligarchs and structures from the sanctions list. In second place is Luxembourg (2.5 billion euros), in third is Italy (2.3 billion euros). They are followed by: Germany (2.2 billion euros), Ireland (1.8 billion euros), Austria (1.8 billion euros), France (1.3 billion euros) and Spain (1 billion euros). Data in this regard have been obtained by the European Commission from the Member States themselves.
Malta at the end
According to the world media, Belgium and Luxembourg additionally seized the assets of the Russian National Settlement Depository (NSD), which also fell under EU sanctions. Belgium froze 46.9 billion euros and Luxembourg 3 billion euros.
At the bottom of the list is Malta, which until recently sold so-called golden passports that guaranteed them citizenship of that country. Malta has frozen only 146.5 thousand people. euros of assets owned by Russians and organizations under Russian sanctions.
There has been a lot of talk in recent days about the stalemate around the ninth round of EU sanctions against Russia. As Deputy Foreign Minister Pavel Yablonsky said today, work on the latest package of restrictions is moving forward, and the list of disagreements between countries is shrinking. The issue of sanctions was initially discussed at a meeting of heads of diplomacy. In the evening, the EU ambassadors discussed the sanctions in detail.
Source: Wprost
