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Poland and Baltic states say bloc should seize funds to start rebuilding country, amid questions of legality
Poland and the Baltic states have urged the EU to work on seizing frozen Russian state assets for the reconstruction of Ukraine “as soon as possible”, raising pressure to act on a legally fraught question.
In the run-up to a two-day EU summit that will discuss the Russian invasion, the leaders of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia said “in order to be credible on this matter vis-a-vis Ukraine” the bloc had to go beyond reiterating previous commitments and “accelerate our work in the council right now”.
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