“Indefinitely seizing another’s property is simply theft.” From Sonja van den Ende at strategic-culture.su:
The European Commission has developed a remarkable talent: systematically breaking all the rules under the guise of a “rules-based order.”
The European Commission has developed a remarkable talent: systematically breaking all the rules under the guise of a “rules-based order.” Its latest scheme is the permanent seizure of €210 billion in Russian assets, implemented through emergency legislation intended for financial crises.
For some time now, the EU’s more radicalized elites—such as Ursula von der Leyen and others from Western Europe, the Baltic States, and Northern Europe—have been preoccupied with Russia’s frozen assets. As I have written, these completely out-of-touch elites insist the “problem” must be solved before Christmas.
Of course, some EU member states disagree. It was already known that the tiny kingdom of Belgium was obstructing the matter, because—as I wrote earlier—they feared a repeat of the theft they committed years ago, when the frozen funds of the assassinated Libyan leader Gaddafi were used to supply weapons to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo is a country where, under Belgian colonial rule, the former King of Belgium once oversaw the murder of thousands.
Hungary and Slovakia agreed to the initial freeze on Russian assets in February 2022, on the condition that the measure be unanimously extended every six months. They call it checks and balances—democratic oversight, in fine terms. But now Brussels faces a new problem with the word “unanimous,” a term they often tout in their propaganda to citizens. No matter; for them, rules are simply rewritten. They have simply activated Article 122, an article actually intended for “real” emergencies, and thus, in the blink of an eye, the freeze has been made permanent.
Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) provides for two legal bases, allowing the Council to adopt measures on the basis of a proposal from the European Commission, without the involvement of the European Parliament.
Property is usually theft for the comrades but they hunger to get back into Russia for the resources and money.
Communism really is utopia for unelected apparatchiks who would otherwise be digging in dumpsters and saving up pennies.
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