A divided E.U. races against time to tap Russian assets for Ukraine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Kyiv's chief European backers have vowed to find a way to keep financing Ukraine's state and army on Thursday as leaders of the European Union's 27 nations meet in Brussels.
50% : Agathe Demarais, a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and a former French treasury adviser in Russia, said European leaders see the Russian assets as a way "to send a signal to the Americans in the hope of maybe being taken more seriously," after Washington released a national security strategy berating the European Union.
48% : As a result, she said, there should be a European agreement, so "whoever has any concerns can go to court against the European Union.
44% : The United States has stopped paying for weapons to Kyiv, and European voters are growing more restless about public spending as big economies stagnate.

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