Antares
Respected Leader
Kuulostaa lupaavalta (artikkeli julkaistu 8.5.2024):
“The EU has reached a deal to seize profits from Russia’s frozen assets to fund weapons and aid for Ukraine within months. EU senior diplomats meeting on Wednesday agreed a compromise on using the estimated €4.4bn windfall profits to aid Ukraine”
“EU member states decided that 90% of the windfall profits would go on weapons for Ukraine and remaining 10% on non-lethal aid, a split designed to assuage countries including Ireland, Austria and Hungary”
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/a...rofits-from-russias-frozen-assets-for-ukraine
Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
Wed 8 May 2024
17.48 CEST
The EU has reached a deal to seize profits from Russia’s frozen assets to fund weapons and aid for Ukraine within months.
EU senior diplomats meeting on Wednesday agreed a compromise on using the estimated €4.4bn windfall profits to aid Ukraine, smoothing over a dispute about taxation and management costs in Belgium, the country where most of the frozen assets are held.
Euroclear, a clearing house in Brussels, holds €191bn of the €260bn of Russian Central Bank assets that were immobilised by western governments in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In February the clearing house reported €4.4bn interest on the Russian funds and forecast that the Belgian government would reap €1.085bn in taxes.
The final amount for Ukraine has yet to be confirmed, but should be available in July.
The EU – wary of the legal ramifications of seizing the entire cache of Russian assets – decided it could give the profits to Ukraine, after concluding Moscow had no legal right to these funds. But finding a deal has been complicated by divisions about how to spend the money, Euroclear’s management fees and Belgium’s 25% tax on corporate profits.
Belgium has now said it is “prepared to consider” a voluntary plan to transfer the collected taxes to Ukraine from 2025, according to diplomatic sources. The Belgian climbdown was first reported by Politico.
The Belgian state is already contributing aid to buy weapons for Ukraine, but other EU countries argued the Russian windfall should be additional to – not instead of – Belgium’s regular Ukraine aid. One EU diplomat had described the profits as “a windfall tax for Belgium” and said: “It is a little unfair because nobody else has Russian money to pay for their aid for Ukraine.”
Meeting on Wednesday, the diplomats also whittled Euroclear’s management fee to 0.3%, down from the original 3% proposed.
EU member states decided that 90% of the windfall profits would go on weapons for Ukraine and remaining 10% on non-lethal aid, a split designed to assuage countries including Ireland, Austria and Hungary that cannot or do not wish to fund arms.
“EU ambassadors agreed in principle on measures concerning extraordinary revenues stemming from Russia’s immobilised assets,” tweeted Belgium’s EU presidency Twitter account. “The money will serve to support #Ukraine‘s recovery and military defence in the context of the Russian aggression.”
Welcoming the agreement, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, tweeted: “There could be no stronger symbol and no greater use for that money than to make Ukraine and all of Europe a safer place to live.”
The EU deal opens the door to a broader discussion in the G7 about using Russia’s frozen billions of assets, but many European nations, including Germany and France, are wary of a US plan to take charge of the assets, fearing a violation of international law.
Separately on Wednesday EU ambassadors began talks on plans to restrict the flow of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) via Europe, as part of a 14th round of sanctions against the Kremlin’s ability to wage war.
The European Commission wants to impose restrictions on the transhipment of LNG in the EU to stop Russia exporting the highly lucrative gas to non-EU countries via EU ports. The EU also wants to ban new investment, goods and services to build LNG terminals in the Russian Arctic. The proposals, however, stop short of a ban on Russian LNG, which unlike most pipeline gas has continued to be imported into the EU.
EU diplomats hope to get agreement on the latest sanctions before the European elections and certainly ahead of 1 July, when the Russia-friendly Hungarian government takes over the bloc’s rotating presidency.
“The EU has reached a deal to seize profits from Russia’s frozen assets to fund weapons and aid for Ukraine within months. EU senior diplomats meeting on Wednesday agreed a compromise on using the estimated €4.4bn windfall profits to aid Ukraine”
“EU member states decided that 90% of the windfall profits would go on weapons for Ukraine and remaining 10% on non-lethal aid, a split designed to assuage countries including Ireland, Austria and Hungary”
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/a...rofits-from-russias-frozen-assets-for-ukraine
EU reaches deal on using profits from Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine
10% of the windfall profits will fund non-lethal aid to assuage EU member states that do not wish to fund armsJennifer Rankin in Brussels
Wed 8 May 2024
17.48 CEST
The EU has reached a deal to seize profits from Russia’s frozen assets to fund weapons and aid for Ukraine within months.
EU senior diplomats meeting on Wednesday agreed a compromise on using the estimated €4.4bn windfall profits to aid Ukraine, smoothing over a dispute about taxation and management costs in Belgium, the country where most of the frozen assets are held.
Euroclear, a clearing house in Brussels, holds €191bn of the €260bn of Russian Central Bank assets that were immobilised by western governments in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In February the clearing house reported €4.4bn interest on the Russian funds and forecast that the Belgian government would reap €1.085bn in taxes.
The final amount for Ukraine has yet to be confirmed, but should be available in July.
The EU – wary of the legal ramifications of seizing the entire cache of Russian assets – decided it could give the profits to Ukraine, after concluding Moscow had no legal right to these funds. But finding a deal has been complicated by divisions about how to spend the money, Euroclear’s management fees and Belgium’s 25% tax on corporate profits.
Belgium has now said it is “prepared to consider” a voluntary plan to transfer the collected taxes to Ukraine from 2025, according to diplomatic sources. The Belgian climbdown was first reported by Politico.
The Belgian state is already contributing aid to buy weapons for Ukraine, but other EU countries argued the Russian windfall should be additional to – not instead of – Belgium’s regular Ukraine aid. One EU diplomat had described the profits as “a windfall tax for Belgium” and said: “It is a little unfair because nobody else has Russian money to pay for their aid for Ukraine.”
Meeting on Wednesday, the diplomats also whittled Euroclear’s management fee to 0.3%, down from the original 3% proposed.
EU member states decided that 90% of the windfall profits would go on weapons for Ukraine and remaining 10% on non-lethal aid, a split designed to assuage countries including Ireland, Austria and Hungary that cannot or do not wish to fund arms.
“EU ambassadors agreed in principle on measures concerning extraordinary revenues stemming from Russia’s immobilised assets,” tweeted Belgium’s EU presidency Twitter account. “The money will serve to support #Ukraine‘s recovery and military defence in the context of the Russian aggression.”
Welcoming the agreement, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, tweeted: “There could be no stronger symbol and no greater use for that money than to make Ukraine and all of Europe a safer place to live.”
The EU deal opens the door to a broader discussion in the G7 about using Russia’s frozen billions of assets, but many European nations, including Germany and France, are wary of a US plan to take charge of the assets, fearing a violation of international law.
Separately on Wednesday EU ambassadors began talks on plans to restrict the flow of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) via Europe, as part of a 14th round of sanctions against the Kremlin’s ability to wage war.
The European Commission wants to impose restrictions on the transhipment of LNG in the EU to stop Russia exporting the highly lucrative gas to non-EU countries via EU ports. The EU also wants to ban new investment, goods and services to build LNG terminals in the Russian Arctic. The proposals, however, stop short of a ban on Russian LNG, which unlike most pipeline gas has continued to be imported into the EU.
EU diplomats hope to get agreement on the latest sanctions before the European elections and certainly ahead of 1 July, when the Russia-friendly Hungarian government takes over the bloc’s rotating presidency.
Kaks hitonmoista FAFO tarinaa on viime päivinä tullu esiin. Pahoittelut jos näistä jompikumpi tai molemmat on käsitelty edellisellä viidellä sivulla.
Eka
Eli. Yhdysvaltain armeijan alipuseeri pari vuotta seurustelu venäläisen naisen kanssa. Molemmat eli Etelä-Koreassa siihen aikaan ja tää nainen kutsu välillä tätä yhdysvaltalaista aviomiehekseen, välillä taas haukku tyypillisellä amerikkalaisia tarkoittavalla haukkumasanalla. Tämä alipupseeri on muuten täysin Magamies, eli tykkää Venäjästä. Miehen asemapaikkan siis oli Etelä-Korea ja muija oli kai tanssimassa siellä klubeilla. No nää kuitenkin eros toisistaan ja mies meni sitten ilman armeijan lupaa Venäjälle korjaamaan asioita. Joutui pidätetyksi ja nyt on sellissä siellä.
Eka
Eli. Yhdysvaltain armeijan alipuseeri pari vuotta seurustelu venäläisen naisen kanssa. Molemmat eli Etelä-Koreassa siihen aikaan ja tää nainen kutsu välillä tätä yhdysvaltalaista aviomiehekseen, välillä taas haukku tyypillisellä amerikkalaisia tarkoittavalla haukkumasanalla. Tämä alipupseeri on muuten täysin Magamies, eli tykkää Venäjästä. Miehen asemapaikkan siis oli Etelä-Korea ja muija oli kai tanssimassa siellä klubeilla. No nää kuitenkin eros toisistaan ja mies meni sitten ilman armeijan lupaa Venäjälle korjaamaan asioita. Joutui pidätetyksi ja nyt on sellissä siellä.
Toinen. Hersonilainen petturi. Pakeni siis Venäjälle kun Herson vapautettiin. Valittelee nyt kun Hersonissa oli kaikki paremmin ja Venäjällä ei ole mitään vapauksia ja mikään ei toimi(kaikki kai järjestyy edelleen vanhan totuuden mukaan). Jos olisi kyky mennä ajassa taaksepäin niin palaisi.
A COLLABORATOR FROM KHERSON WHINES ABOUT HOW MISERABLE HER 'NEW LIFE' IN RUSSIA IS...
...and about how she wishes she could come back.
Here's a long drink of v@tnik tears, for you #NAFO fellas!
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So, here's a collaborator from Kherson - I'm not going to name her, because I don't want to give her additional publicity. But she escaped to russia with other collaborators when Kherson was liberated.
And now here, below, you can hear her describing her new life in russia.
I can't be troubled with translating FORTY MINUTES OF WHINING, but I'll give you the highlights.
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Most important of all, she says that...
She wants very much to come back (this is at 21:35 in the video), and if there was a chance to reverse time, then she would wish that the SVO never started.
) - everyone is forced to say, 'Everything is fine, everything is fine.'
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The rest of the video is basically about how much more miserable and inconvenient life is in russia. Here are some excerpts, below:
She whines that...
In Kherson they were not rich people, but in russia they are like beggars.
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More areas in which she says russia does not compare with Ukraine...
Tools and appliances:
In russia, you can't get anything in local stores, and when you buy online in shops like Ozone and Wildberries everything is very expensive - very much more so than she remembers from when she was in Ukraine.
Public transport:
You have to spend the whole day if you plan to go anywhere. The bus only comes once or twice in the day, so you wait for it, and so going anywhere takes your whole day.
Food:
In Ukraine she knew in which cafe to eat 'in order to feel good' (her exact words), and in russia she buys something to eat and it's so uninspiring that she falls asleep over it, and life in general is so uninspiring that she can't think properly.
Computer chairs (!) - yes, she's really whining about computer chairs:
And in russia you go to a shop, and you have a choice between two models of chairs. That's it. Of course it's not like that in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but it's like that in her city.
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And she says that she'll never have all the comforts again that she had in Ukraine...
...the sofas, the cupboards, the sports equipment (her exact words).
Things just cost too much and she earns too little. She would have to scrimp and save for years to attain even an echo of her lifestyle in Ukraine.
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A personal note:
On a personal level, I find her manner of speaking and expressions VERY irritating. It took will to listen to her for forty minutes.
I trust people here will appreciate my sacrifices in bringing you this 'cheerful' message from inside russia.
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taantumu
Kenraali
Ennustajan puheilla on taas käyty ja tällä kertaa sota päättyy syksyn lopulla, sodan loppu tarkoittaa myös historian käännekohtaa johtuen astrologisista sykleistä. Kesä tulee olemaan vaikea venäläissotilaille sillä pimein hetki on ennen sarastusta. Presidentille vaikein aika on voiton jälkeen sillä hän on työskennellyt väsymättömästi sodan aikana ja voiton jälkeen iskee väsymys.
https://www.mk.ru/social/2024/05/08...m-videnii-daty-zaversheniya-specoperacii.html
Makkaramestari
Kapteeni
Kyllä minä olen niin toivonut iskua siltaan voitonpäivän kunniaksi.
ddude
Majuri
Venäläinen oli työskennellyt Koreassa, yllätys,yllätys prostituoituna.
Ja jenkkisotilaalla on ainakin vaimo kotona odottamassa...
Tuo on kyl viel vahistamatta tuo vaimo juttu, voi siis olla, että kyseessä on väärinymmärrys, koska tuo ryssämuija on tuota sanonu videoilla aviomieheks ja ainakaan tän miehen äiti ei mitään vaimosta ole sanonu.
Sextiettan
Kapteeni
Eripura
Kersantti
Kuinkahan moni meni Hersonista venäjälle syksyllä 2022?
missileman
Kenraali
Belgorodissa tullut osumaa useampaan paikkaan. Hieman epäselvä mitä tuossa olisi tuhottu 
missileman
Kenraali
Useampiin öljyvarastoihin olisi yöllä isketty, odotellaan tarkempia uutisia
edit: Yurivka, Krasnodar Territory
edit: Yurivka, Krasnodar Territory
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missileman
Kenraali
Mobilisoitujen linja-auto ottaa ottaa osumaa, ei selvyyttä osuuko tuohon drone, mahdollinen pommi tms..
missileman
Kenraali
Vankien kiinniottoa Chasiv Yarissa, eikös tämän pitänyt olla jo menetetty ? Tuntuu hieman siltä että paljon tulee kuitenkin kuvia, jossa nuo hyökkäykset ei ryssillä ihan putkeen mene.
missileman
Kenraali
Baba Yaga dronen tuhoamisia
While you sleep, the Ukrainian "Baba Yaga" drone was burning down Russian bunkers.
Akasia 2C3
While you sleep, the Ukrainian "Baba Yaga" drone was burning down Russian bunkers.
Akasia 2C3
Putin oli saanut työnsä päätökseen ja seitsemäntenä päivänä hän lepäsi kaikesta työstään....?