Which countries, besides Russia, have assets frozen by the EU?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Instead, 90 billion euros ($106bn) will come from an interest-free loan provided by 23 out of the 27 EU member states.
55% : Under the plan, the EU would have borrowed from Euroclear - the Belgian-based clearing house holding more than 40 trillion euros ($47 trillion) of assets - to provide Ukraine with an initial 90-billion-euro ($106bn) loan.
51% : After the overthrow of the government in December 2024, the EU suspended some of these measures to help support the political transition in Syria, but has maintained freezes on the Assad regime and the drugs trade.
50% : While Russia's situation is unique because the EU has frozen its Sovereign Central Bank reserves, most other countries on this list primarily have assets belonging to government officials, oligarchs or specific state-owned companies frozen, rather than their entire national reserves.
48% : According to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), which tracks financial sanctions, the United Kingdom has frozen the UK-based assets of individuals and entities from 22 countries, with most being the same states sanctioned by the EU.
46% : According to the European Commission's sanction tracker, the EU has imposed asset freezes and a prohibition on making funds available in at least 31 countries.
46% : Many of the moves are mandated by the United Nations, and then implemented by the EU, while other asset freezes come directly as a result of EU decisions, including those on Venezuela.
45% : The loan would only have needed to be repaid to the EU if Russia agreed to pay reparations for the war to Ukraine.
45% : More than 289.5 billion euros ($339.3bn) in Russian assets have been frozen by Western countries since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with the EU holding 209 billion euros ($247bn) of this.
45% : Explore the table below to find out which other countries have had assets frozen by the EU.
42% : While Russia is the most prominent non-European country with significant assets frozen in Europe, several other nations outside Europe are also subject to asset freezes under the EU sanctions regimes.
40% : European Union leaders agreed not to use frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine's defence in the ongoing war with Russia early on Friday.
38% : In 2017, the EU froze assets of Venezuelan entities and individuals in response to the breakdown of democratic rule and human rights abuses in the country under President Nicolas Maduro.
30% : He told reporters: "There are two countries which are at war - it's not European Union, [it's] Russia and Ukraine - and the European Union would like to take away the money of one of the warring party and then to give it to another one.
24% : Besides Belgium, a number of EU members opposed the plan, with Belgium raising concerns that using the frozen assets without strong EU guarantees is "fundamentally wrong".

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