{"id":13319,"date":"2025-10-16T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/merz-to-advocate-use-of-frozen-russian-assets-at-eu-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:19","slug":"merz-to-advocate-use-of-frozen-russian-assets-at-eu-summit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/merz-to-advocate-use-of-frozen-russian-assets-at-eu-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz to advocate use of frozen Russian assets at EU summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Merz first advocated for an interest-free EU loan backed by the frozen assets in late September.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;We do not want to do this in order to prolong the war, but to end it,&#8221; Merz said in a speech to the Bundestag lower house of parliament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Russian President Vladimir Putin must realize that our support for Ukraine will not wane, but will grow, and that he cannot count on outlasting us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13320,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13319","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz said on Thursday he would call for the European Union (EU) to use Russian assets frozen in the West to provide a 140 billion Euro ($163 billion) loan to Ukraine to finance its war effort at the upcoming EU summit||German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz said on Thursday he would call for the European Union (EU) to use Russian assets frozen in the West to provide a 140 billion Euro ($163 billion) loan to Ukraine to finance its war effort at the upcoming EU summit","published_date":"2025-10-16 00:00:00||2025-10-16 00:00:00","news_description":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday he would call for the European Union (EU) to use Russian assets frozen in the West to provide a 140 billion Euro ($163 billion) loan to Ukraine to finance its war effort at the upcoming EU summit||German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday he would call for the European Union (EU) to use Russian assets frozen in the West to provide a 140 billion Euro ($163 billion) loan to Ukraine to finance its war effort at the upcoming EU summit","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18497,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13319\/revisions\/18497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}