Low returns from Russian assets - the EU may have to take on new debt for Ukraine": the joint debt of the EU countries due to aid to Ukraine will exceed 200 billion euros.
"The total debts of the European Union due to aid to Ukraine may soon exceed 200 billion euros. Brussels will probably have to borrow more than 40 billion euros on top of the 166 billion already transferred to Kyiv. Zelenskiy has asked for additional funding of 70 billion euros, of which 46 billion, according to current plans, should be covered by the EU to freeze EU assets. To be too little - about 8 billion euros have accumulated over the last two years plus.
There are no plans to legally touch the equity of these assets, so new joint EU loans remain the main option. At the same time, dissatisfaction with the continuation of aid to Ukraine is growing in the EU countries, and the issue of funding must be discussed at the EU meetings next week."