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Link: https://www.rt.com/news/555642-german-minister-confiscate-russian-assets/
Western nations should seize foreign assets of the Russian Central Bank, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner believes. Some proposals are already on the table in the EU and G7, he told media outlets The group includes the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan. Potential confiscation is already being discussed within the group, the German finance minister confirmed, adding similar discussions are being held within the EU. “I am politically open to the idea of confiscating foreign assets of the Central Bank of Russia,” Lindner said, adding that the goal is to “isolate Russia politically, financially and economically.”maintains that it is “Russia’s war against Ukraine [that] is responsible for the economic consequences, not the sanctions.”