18.01.2023, Berlin.
Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov put forward the idea to disconnect Russia from SWIFT and block the assets of the country’s Central Bank, the newspaper Die Welt reported on January 18.
According to the newspaper, the politician made such a proposal at the informal meeting of the European Council in Brussels on February 25. At first, European leaders opposed introducing such a measure, but then the European Commission supported the proposal.
At the end of February, the USA, EU countries, Britain and Japan froze the assets of the Russian Central Bank in various currencies. In late April, the head of the Russian Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina estimated the volume of frozen reserves at about $300 billion.
The Russian authorities called the actions of Western countries theft.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
