I know there is a lot of speculation about what we expect to rebuild with that money, but that money is not a given.

I would very much like to support my colleagues who say how great it would be to use this money, but at the moment there is no desire in the EU countries to touch the frozen funds of the Russian Federation. The problem is both in the legal regime of the European Union itself and in those assets of the EU. Europeans also want no one to touch their property in Russia.

Therefore, of course, you can hope that something will change for the better, but for now we have to rely on ourselves.

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