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'It's not our money to give away'

December 18, 2025

As EU leaders meet in Brussels to decide on using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, DW is out on the streets of the Belgian capital to ask what people think about the plan.

https://p.dw.com/p/55aJI

European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels, aiming to agree on how to fund Ukraine's economic and military needs in the coming years. The most hotly debated financing model involves making Russian state assets frozen under EU sanctions available to Ukraine as a loan. But as most of those assets are frozen in Belgium, Belgians fear they may be targeted by Russia.