German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday rejected putting Russian assets frozen in the European Union under U.S. control, saying the decision should stay with Europe and the assets should remain frozen there. His remarks, made ahead of an EU summit in Brussels, responded to media reports that the United States had proposed unfreezing some of these assets and placing them under a mechanism overseen by Washington. About 210 billion euros (about 235 billion U.S. dollars) in Russian central bank assets are currently immobilized in the EU.
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