{"id":3291,"date":"2025-11-20T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:36:12","slug":"eu-solidarity-in-action-means-using-russias-frozen-assets-to-defend-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/11\/20\/eu-solidarity-in-action-means-using-russias-frozen-assets-to-defend-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"EU solidarity in action means using Russia\u2019s frozen assets to defend Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The article argues that the EU should use Russia\u2019s frozen assets to finance Ukraine\u2019s defense and democratic reforms. A proposed \u201cReparations Loan\u201d of \u20ac140 billion could strengthen Ukraine\u2019s resilience and safeguard European security. However, experts caution that wartime centralization of power in Ukraine threatens checks and balances and political pluralism. EU membership is seen as the best framework to preserve the rule of law, but accession is stalled by political vetoes. Without decisive action, Europe risks losing momentum in supporting Ukraine\u2019s democratic transformation. The message is clear: solidarity must translate into tangible resources, not just rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/eu-and-the-world\/ar4b4a311d\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/eu-and-the-world\/ar4b4a311d\">EUobserver<\/a><br><strong>Date:<\/strong> November 13, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article argues that the EU should use Russia\u2019s frozen assets to finance Ukraine\u2019s defense and democratic reforms. A proposed \u201cReparations Loan\u201d of \u20ac140 billion could strengthen Ukraine\u2019s resilience and safeguard European security. However, experts caution that wartime centralization of power in Ukraine threatens checks and balances and political pluralism. EU membership is seen as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}