Not for the first time, he described the windfall profits — which are used to support Ukraine — from the immobilized assets as golden eggs from a goose.
“Today, the plan is to serve that goose, to eat it,” he told MPs.
But if the other EU countries agree to fully share the risks and protect Belgium from potential Russian retaliation, “then we’ll all jump off that cliff together … and hope that the parachute will hold us,” De Wever said.
“We will do that, because the alternative — no solution, no financing for Ukraine, the country collapses — is the ultimate geopolitical embarrassment of Europe, which we will feel for decades to come,” he added.
De Wever said some would only be too happy if “Europe were completely torn apart … parting in utter chaos with no solution for Ukraine and with knives drawn,” without naming names. “It would be catastrophic.”
Thursday is, in De Wever’s own words, “a pretty special day.”