The Belgian PM has put a spanner in the works of using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine. He says it would violate international law and would destabilise financial markets. Belgium hosts €183bn, about two-thirds of the Russian assets immobilised in the west, at the Brussels-based central securities depository Euroclear. He warned that Euroclear could be sued by Russians with a claim on the assets, landing the Belgian government with a multibillion euro bill. He also said it would prevent the EU from reaching a peace deal, because the Russian assets would not be available for the reconstruction of Ukraine. He clearly reckons Ukraine will lose the war and that Russia would then be asking for its sovereign assets to be returned. As has happened in other cases.
The assets are seen as a key element of upping pressure on Russia, as well as a means of funding Ukraine’s defence at a time when many EU governments are grappling with tight budgets or deficits.
Bart De Wever, 21 December 1970 11.40pm Mortsel, Belgium is a conservative and Flemish nationalist. He has a 4th house Sagittarius Sun in a controlling square to Pluto in his 1st house, both final degree – and both to be undermined over the winter by tr Neptune Saturn in hard aspect. He also has Saturn in Taurus opposition Mars Venus in Scorpio with Jupiter also in Scorpio. Not a man to budge easy.
His chart relocated to Kyiv puts a focus on financial matters for him. But what intrigues me is his relocated chart to Moscow which puts the abusive, lying Nessus exactly on his Midheaven and intolerable-suffering Chariklo on his Descendant. There will be different ways of reading the meanings of these two positions but there may be more to his trenchant resistance than meets the eye.
Russian assets have been frozen in the UK. And to put it into perspective, in my part of the UK, there have been reports of Russian spies disembarking from cargo ships. So I think we are at war, whether we know it or not.
There are always spies around everywhere. Not an indication of war, necessarily.
Are you advocating theft?
Lin-LOL, of course not. I think a lot of EU politicians are compromised and are actively helping RU. Historians will not be kind to Belgium. Are you Russian?
Thanks, Marjorie. Looks like some EU countries want or hope for a larger war, perhaps as a way to make $$ on munitions, manufacturing, etc. Very confounding.
This insinuation is very inappropriate
Margret—How else to explain these reckless and heartless decisions?
Non-astrological answer.
Belgium’s politics is very, very complicated, with what would be considered national authority in most other countries being divided to both supra-national (the EU) and sub-national (the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels regions AND the Flemish, French and German communities) entities.
Keep in mind that at the national level, the government needs to be formed of multiple parties (Belgium has a proportional representation model of electing its Parliament) of both Flemish and French political parties. That makes forming a government very, very difficult and any government so formed is going to be at the mercy of even its smaller parties pulling out, thus collapsing the government. Such a government would thus take the approach of least change to the current situation.
So the answer to your question is nowhere as simple as what you make it out to be.