Portugal wobbles over EU proposal to use seized Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine

“Being on sanctions list does not mean sanctioned person loses his or her assets”, says minister

Portugal has shown ‘a major wobble’ with regard to the EU proposal to use seized Russian assets to help rebuild Ukraine.

Talking on the sidelines of the NATO meeting of foreign ministers in Bucharest yesterday, the country’s chief of diplomacy João Gomes Cravinho stressed “there is a distinction to be made between freezing and losing those assets to the state, for other purposes (…) the mere fact of being on a sanctions list does not mean that the sanctioned person loses his or her assets”.

Source: Portugal Resident