EU told to choose between ‘money today or blood tomorrow’ as leaders debate giving Russian assets to Ukraine – Europe live

European leaders meet in Brussels as Poland’s Donald Tusk issues warning to fellow EU statesThe chief opponent of sending any further money to Ukraine, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, just told reporters in Brussels that the idea of using frozen Russian assets was “stupid.”“The whole idea is stupid. … There are two countries which are at war – it’s not European Union, [it’s] Russia and Ukraine – and the European Union would like to take away the money of one of the warring party and then to give it to another one. It’s marching into the war. The Belgian prime minister is right, we should not do that.” Continue reading...