President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Chairman of Investor ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has asked other EU leaders to guarantee they will share the risks if frozen Russian assets held in his country are used to finance loans to ...

Political support is growing across the European Union for a groundbreaking plan to issue a €140 billion loan to Ukraine based on the immobilised assets of the Russian Central Bank, which would help ...

With the United States indicating it may not be willing to finance Ukraine's defense needs for much longer, the European Union is looking into various ways of footing a larger part of the bill in 2026 ...

(Bloomberg) -- The European Union is increasingly convinced that tapping around €200 billion ($232 billion) in frozen Russian central bank assets is the only viable way to put funding for Ukraine on a ...

BRUSSELS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The European Union is searching for a way to finance Ukraine's defence and reconstruction in 2026 and 2027 with Russian central bank assets immobilised in the West after ...

Germany’s chancellor is the latest to back a loan plan that is meant to send a message to Moscow that Ukraine will not collapse. But the idea carries risks. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged the EU to establish a legal framework to unlock €194 billion in frozen Russian assets, proposing an interest-free loan for Ukraine’s military procurement. The ...

In 1997 David Bowie once again startled the world with his creativity, this time in the unlikely realm of financial engineering. The rock icon convinced Wall Street types to fork out $55m, in exchange ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on the European Union to use $160 billion of frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s benefit – particularly the continued supply of weapons – in a major policy ...

Stephen Rademaker, a senior counsel at the law firm Covington & Burling, was chief counsel to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs when it approved the Helms-Burton law in 1996. Momentum is building ...

Amid a plan to lend $165 billion to Kyiv using Russian state assets, European officials are mindful of the possibility of blowback as they gather to discuss the idea. By Paul Sonne Reporting from ...