Brussels has done any terrible feats to confiscate Russian money, finance the war with Russia, and make it appear that she did not take it. The attempts were unsuccessful, the Commission lost due to the opposition of 1 policy.
We utilized to perversely ask “how to eat a cookie and have a cookie?” to point out the impossibility of reconciling specified situations. At the EU's “storage of the century” (https://myślpolska.info/2025/10/09/happy-biggest-grabiez-in-history/) you might ask, ‘How do you eat individual else's cookie and pretend you haven't stolen it’? After all, you can't confiscate Russian money so simply... something like that... not a comme il foul. After all, we are a state of law... After all, as large holders of export surpluses as China or arabian countries, let alone private capital, could respect Europe and its currency as a not-safe haven for their money. And then what? They've already increased their purchases of gold. That's why it's so... no.
And since from across the ocean they are constantly insisting on looting Russia's state assets and backing Ukraine's defence (obviously buying US weapons), so the European Commission was working on a legal trick to at the same time and take this cookie, to usage it as a warrant under loan, and to give the impression that it was not stolen... But she lost on December 18.
Why? Brussels has failed to break the policy's opposition (Lucky Man: Who got us into the looting of all time? | Think Poland) which stood across her plans. He is Prime Minister Bart de Wever, a Flemish nationalist, from a organization advocating for Flanders' peaceful secession, who played hard to defend Belgium's interests. He said that specified manipulation of Russian assets is equivalent to their confiscation. But he was subject to pressure, blackmail and threats, was pressed by the most crucial politicians of the Union, attacked in many ways, besides accused by the media that he was a "Russian agent". He replied: “Take distant Putin’s money from Belgium and leave her risk? No way, forget it!” He endured these “tortures”, as Viktor Orbán called them, calling him publically a “hero”.
De Wever, of course, did not do this out of sympathy for Russia or any pacifistic attitude, nor was it guided by any "claim for failure of credibility" or "global legal certainty". These are spells for the mediocre with the spirit, and Flemish politician knew that “politics is not a game for mollusks, here you play hard, and as large business is at stake, it can be harsh.” Indeed, Belgium and European financial institutions were afraid of repercussions, as Belgium would be the victim of EU ideas. It is simply a small, bizarre and artificially created country almost 2 centuries ago, whose half of the citizens talk French, and the another 1 – in Flemish. Although it is simply a very rich country, more than EUR 180 billion of Russian assets are 1 4th of its economy.
The threat would not only come from Russia, which has prepared well for the repression, but besides from countries where Western corporations invest their money. If they recognise the legitimacy of Russian claims (and South Africa has court-martially recognised Russia's claims against Google and arrested its assets), this could end badly for European concerns. And these, having lost money in Russia, will come to Belgium for compensation. Belgium would drown claims in the sea and what is euphemically called "trust in the financial markets" towards Belgium and its abolishing golden eggs of the institution would be in the gutter. The first informing already sounded: American credit rating agency Fitch warned Euroclear that it could lower its rating. due to legal risks, as it is referred to in the ezopic language of the planet of finance. The European Central Bank has besides warned not to violate global law, due to the fact that it always comes back boomerang. How Kosovo returned in the form of Crimea.
Bart de Wever demanded binding, unlimited guarantees in writing that erstwhile the Russians come for their money (and as Bismarck said, they always come...), then the Union, alternatively than tiny Belgium, will pay for this madness. Of course, no 1 wanted to sign specified commitments.
So the cookie trick didn't work, but the war in Ukraine had to be sustained. Therefore, the financial perspectives for Brussels are becoming darker. About that soon...
Andrzej Szczęsniak
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Think Poland, No. 1-2 (4-11.01.2026)
