From Security to Economics - Freezing Russian Assets under Article 122(1) TFEU Violates the Treaties Leichsenring, Til Author aut Popp, Julia Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-12-23 eng
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 Last week, by adopting Regulation 2025/2600, the Council effectively froze Russian state assets permanently. They had already been frozen under the EU sanctions regime which required unanimous renewal every six months. In our view, this permanent freezing under Article 122(1) TFEU remains primarily designed to address matters of foreign policy and violates the conferral of competence. In the long term, given that the frozen assets also serve as a security for the newly agreed loan of EUR 90 billion for Ukraine, this will also jeopardize the enforceability of the said collateral. CC BY-SA 4.0 Leichsenring, Til Article 122(1) TFEU EU Frozen Assets Regulation 2025/2600 competences EU 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/from-security-to-economics/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/a3f9198e9a2473e8 251223 10.59704/a3f9198e9a2473e8 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)