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By Jan Strupczewski EU to consider leveraging windfall profits from Russian assets after G7 summit BRUSSELS, - European Union finance ministers will consider a G7 plan for leveraging windfall profits generated by Russian assets, imm stanley cup obilised in the W stanley flask est after Russia s invasion of Ukraine, after a G7 summit later in June, the ministers chairman said. Paschal Donohoe, who chairs meetings of euro zone finance ministers, said after a video teleconference of EU ministers on Wednesday that the stanley cup re was unwavering support to help Ukraine meet its financing needs. The discussion among ministers showed appreciation for the constructive engagement with G7 partners in this regard and full support for it to continue, Donohoe said in the statement after the teleconference. Finance ministers will consider at their June meeting the need for further discussions following the G7 Summit in Apulia, he added. After Moscow s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, western countries immobilised some $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, which are generating annual profits of 2.5-3.5 billion euros a year. While seizing the capital of the assets would be legally risky, European governments agree that using the profits generated by the frozen capital is fine because the profits do not legally belong to Moscow. The European Union, where the bulk of the assets are held, agreed to put the annual profits into a special fund that would pay for weapons for Ukraine and the co Xtyk Engaged : Facebook s Sheryl Sandberg makes her big announcement
A veteran Republican operative who got his start in politics by helping to persuade a judge to throw out hundreds of mail-in ballots is organizing an army of volunteers for President Donald Trumps campaign to monitor voting in Democratic-leaning areas on Tuesday. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the Kenosha Regional Airport stanley kubek Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. AP Photo/Morry Gash AP Click here for full US elections 2020 coverage Mike Roman, Trumps director of Election Day Operations, is a former White House aide from Pennsylvania who gathered claims in 1993 of voter fraud, resulting in a court ruling overturning election results and getting his candidate seated in the Pennsylvania State Senate. Its a strategy that Trump has been advocating on Twitter stanley website and on the stump. For months the president has been trying to undercut the validity of mail-in ballots, a stanley cup long-used method of voting that was up this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last week, Trump has also suggested that any votes tabulated after Election Day are suspect, even as his campaign has opposed plans by elections officials to start counting mail-in ballots early. Roman, who previously ran the secretive in-house intelligence unit for the political network led by GOP mega-donors Charles and David Koch, has organized what the campaign claims is 50,000 poll watchers. Many many of them registered through an Army For Trump website that asks his supporters to enlist
By Jan Strupczewski EU to consider leveraging windfall profits from Russian assets after G7 summit BRUSSELS, - European Union finance ministers will consider a G7 plan for leveraging windfall profits generated by Russian assets, imm stanley cup obilised in the W stanley flask est after Russia s invasion of Ukraine, after a G7 summit later in June, the ministers chairman said. Paschal Donohoe, who chairs meetings of euro zone finance ministers, said after a video teleconference of EU ministers on Wednesday that the stanley cup re was unwavering support to help Ukraine meet its financing needs. The discussion among ministers showed appreciation for the constructive engagement with G7 partners in this regard and full support for it to continue, Donohoe said in the statement after the teleconference. Finance ministers will consider at their June meeting the need for further discussions following the G7 Summit in Apulia, he added. After Moscow s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, western countries immobilised some $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, which are generating annual profits of 2.5-3.5 billion euros a year. While seizing the capital of the assets would be legally risky, European governments agree that using the profits generated by the frozen capital is fine because the profits do not legally belong to Moscow. The European Union, where the bulk of the assets are held, agreed to put the annual profits into a special fund that would pay for weapons for Ukraine and the co Xtyk Engaged : Facebook s Sheryl Sandberg makes her big announcement
A veteran Republican operative who got his start in politics by helping to persuade a judge to throw out hundreds of mail-in ballots is organizing an army of volunteers for President Donald Trumps campaign to monitor voting in Democratic-leaning areas on Tuesday. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the Kenosha Regional Airport stanley kubek Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. AP Photo/Morry Gash AP Click here for full US elections 2020 coverage Mike Roman, Trumps director of Election Day Operations, is a former White House aide from Pennsylvania who gathered claims in 1993 of voter fraud, resulting in a court ruling overturning election results and getting his candidate seated in the Pennsylvania State Senate. Its a strategy that Trump has been advocating on Twitter stanley website and on the stump. For months the president has been trying to undercut the validity of mail-in ballots, a stanley cup long-used method of voting that was up this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last week, Trump has also suggested that any votes tabulated after Election Day are suspect, even as his campaign has opposed plans by elections officials to start counting mail-in ballots early. Roman, who previously ran the secretive in-house intelligence unit for the political network led by GOP mega-donors Charles and David Koch, has organized what the campaign claims is 50,000 poll watchers. Many many of them registered through an Army For Trump website that asks his supporters to enlist