In her State of the Union address on Wednesday 10 September, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced new measures to strengthen European support for Ukraine.
The President is proposing to set up a reparations loan using frozen Russian assets. “This is Russia’s war. And it is Russia that should pay. This is why we need to work urgently on a new solution to finance Ukraine’s war effort on the basis of the immobilised Russian assets”, she explained....