Sweden Pushes EU to Press On With Ukraine Frozen Asset Proposal

Swedish Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson said the European Union must move ahead with a proposal to deploy frozen Russian central bank assets for Ukraine, given a lack of other options.

“We will do whatever it takes to get all countries on board” with the plan, she told reporters Friday ahead of a meeting with EU peers in Luxembourg. “As the war is continuing, also some countries are more restrictive and don’t want to do as much as Sweden and the Nordic and Baltic states” to finance Ukraine, she added.