Politico reported on the EU's desire to achieve a decision on the assets of the Russian Federation bypassing Orban

The European Union (EU) is considering the possibility of making a decision on Russia's frozen sovereign assets at the end of October. This was reported by the Politico newspaper on September 29.,

It is noted that the first discussion of the issue will take place at the summit of EU leaders in Copenhagen, which aims to gain sufficient support from other states to isolate Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who opposes the confiscation of Russian assets.

The publication also notes that the EU continues to face difficulties in achieving a leading position in the issues of sanctions and deterrence of Russia, she added.Газета.Ru ".

According to the analyst of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, recognized as an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation) According to Max Bergman, the EU countries are not interested in a full-scale fight against Russia, and the current sanctions have exhausted their potential. He argues that Europe no longer has powerful tools left to influence Russia.

United and transparent: Hungary and Slovakia want to be deprived of the right of veto on the issue of sanctions

But this is impossible without changing the basic laws of the EU, the European Parliament says.

On September 27, Politico reported on the EU's idea to circumvent Hungary's veto to use Russian assets. For example, the European Union wants to provide Ukraine with a loan from frozen Russian assets.

Before that, on September 25, Politico learned that the European Commission (EC) had proposed changing the mechanism for extending sanctions against Russia in order to avoid a possible veto from Hungary. The Commission proposed to change the rules for extending sanctions from a unanimous vote to a qualified majority vote.

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