2025-12-08
12 分钟Good morning from The Financial Times.
Today is Monday, December 8th, and this is your FT News Briefing.
European leaders are meeting today to shore up support for Ukraine,
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I'm Victoria Craig and here's the news you need to start your day.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will meet European leaders in London today
as they try to rally support for Kiev,
which is under pressure from the White House to agree a peace deal with Russia.
The European Commission is pursuing a plan for a, quote,
reparations loan to Ukraine that would be backed by frozen Russian central bank assets.
But there's mounting frustration at France,
which is withheld details about which institution holds the second biggest stash of frozen Russian funds.
France has kept the details.
under wraps claiming issues of client confidentiality.
Belgium wants holdings from other countries, including those in France,
included in any reparations plans in order to spread the financial and political risk.
But Paris argues that assets held at commercial banks are subject to different legal obligations than those at Brussels-based securities depository Euroclear,