This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Dutch with my good colleague, Judy Dempsey, in Berlin,

watching the German economy and the German political philosophy all very closely because that is a leader in Europe.

But there are other voices, and they were raised together in these last hours, according to the F.T.

Europeans rush to Zelensky's defense after tense Donald Trump meeting. That's the one

where the FD. said voices were raised last weekend, Friday and Saturday, I believe.

EU seeks to secure deal on frozen Russian assets and more sanctions on Moscow to show support for Ukraine.

The frozen assets, that's the Russian money that was not inside the country when the war broke out.

Most of it, I believe, is in Belgium that wants a guarantee that it won't be punished in the courts afterwards.

At the same time, what is Europe doing about it? There's a meeting coming Friday in London. I don't know who will attend. Everybody will be there virtually anyway. And it's said to be a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing. What does that mean to Germany? What does it mean to Merritt? What does it mean to Europe? Judy, what can they do for him? What can they do?

Because he needs Tomahawk. We've been through this before. We've been through these, what

you do with these huge Russian assets of the way to be seized. Belgium has been holding

this agreement on holding this up for such a long time. And several EU member

states want these assets, including Germany, to be spent on equipment to defend Ukraine.

And we're waiting for Belgium. This is a 27 member country's arguing when there's a war going on

inside Europe. And they're arguing over the same things, what to do with the assets.

Secondly, they're still arguing over coalitions of the willing.

Yes, it sounds very nice.

France and Germany and Poland and other countries will form a coalition of the willing.

To do what?

They've been discussing this for over a year now.

They're discussing now another battery of sanctions.

Okay, Slovakia will try to hold it up.

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