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The pot is massive: An estimated \u20ac300 billion in Russian Central Bank assets are frozen across the G7 countries. <\/p>\n
The vast majority \u2014 to the tune of \u20ac185 billion \u2014 is locked here in Belgium by Euroclear, a securities depository. <\/p>\n
Brussels planned to use the Russian frozen assets to issue an unprecedented reparations loan for Ukraine. But the US plan flips the script with a controversial proposal: unblock the funds and split them into two investment vehicles. <\/p>\n
The first fund would be intended for Ukraine’s reconstruction. $100 billion of the frozen assets would be deployed, and Europe would have to front another $100 billion of its own cash. The catch? The US takes 50% of the profits.<\/p>\n
The second pot would be used for a US-Russian joint venture. The rest of the money would be invested in projects for Moscow. Far from paying reparations for attacking its neighbour, the Kremlin is to be rewarded with a commercial opportunity.<\/p>\n
The result? Moscow gets a win, Washington flips a profit, and Europe loses its main leverage. Brussels is not at the table \u2014 and it may end up reduced to a spectator with a very expensive bill to pay.<\/p>\n
Watch the Euronews video in the player above for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 24\/11\/2025 – 18:51 GMT+1 The pot is massive: An estimated \u20ac300 billion in Russian Central Bank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,89320,61,60,89321,2040],"class_list":["post-159185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-eu-russia","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-russias-invasion-of-ukraine","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}