Home › Archive › In the Media › Denník N | Fico sent a vulgar message about Ukraine to Brussels. Meanwhile, EU countries have already agreed on how to bypass a potential Slovak and Hungarian vetoDenník N | Fico sent a vulgar message about Ukraine to Brussels. Meanwhile, EU countries have already agreed on how to bypass a potential Slovak and Hungarian veto
EU member states have taken the first significant step toward releasing frozen Russian assets for Ukraine. Despite opposition from Slovakia and Hungary, they approved a mechanism ensuring that the funds will not depend on sanctions or the decisions of individual countries, allowing them to help Kyiv obtain the necessary financial support. Martin Vokálek, Executive Director and Head of the Brussels office of the EUROPEUM Institute, commented on this for Denník N.
12. December 2025
First of all, it eliminates the risk that in the future a single country, like Hungary or Slovakia, or anyone else, could say: we are not extending the sanctions. This could mean that these funds would have to be gradually, theoretically, released and unfrozen, and potentially essentially returned to the Russian Federation.
It won’t have to be reassessed every six months whether someone might be throwing a wrench in the works for the rest of the EU27, or trying to force anything else through by threatening to veto it. This eliminates the risk of a rapid unfreezing due to a political veto.
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