Europe must find a way to help fund the fight against Putin – for its own sake

Reticence over the seizure of Russian state assets in Europe betrays a fatal underestimation of the threat Moscow posesEurope has plotted an elegant decline that suits the needs of its ageing population, and the Ukraine war cannot be allowed to interfere with that plan.That is how it seems when EU countries consider circumventing the financial rulebook to offer Ukraine what it needs to overcome waves of drones and break the deadlock on its eastern front. Continue reading...