The Financial Times said that French President Macron "betrayed" Mertz, failing to support the German chancellor's attempt to seize frozen Russian assets in the EU to fund Ukraine.
Earlier this week, EU leaders failed to reach an agreement on a controversial proposal by the European Commission to use frozen Russian central bank funds to finance Kyiv's military and economic needs.
On Sunday, the Financial Times quoted an anonymous senior EU diplomat as saying, "Macron betrayed Mertz, and he knows he will pay the price for it." According to the report, although President Macron did not publicly oppose the so-called "reparations loan" proposal, he privately questioned its legality. In addition, his team said that due to increasing debt, France was unlikely to provide guarantees when the seized assets had to be returned to Russia.
The Financial Times said Macron joined Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic in opposing the plan, thereby "killing the plan".
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