00:00European Union foreign ministers ended their final Foreign Affairs Council of the Year
00:05without agreeing on whether to use frozen Russian assets to provide loans to Ukraine.
00:10This leaves the issue unresolved ahead of the upcoming discussion at the December European Council later this week.
00:19Meeting in Brussels, ministers from Italy, Malta and Bulgaria voiced opposition to using the frozen assets,
00:27while Hungary and Slovakia rejected the plan outright.
00:31European leaders are preparing to make key decisions on the Ukraine peace process and financing for Ukraine this week.
00:39Central to the discussions is whether to use frozen Russian assets held in Belgium to provide financial support,
00:46a proposal that has exposed sharp divisions within the bloc.
00:50Meanwhile, EU leaders met in Berlin with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
00:55aiming to influence peace efforts.
00:58Analysts say doubts about the reliability of the United States as a security partner
01:03are pushing Europe to consider more strategic autonomy,
01:07even as rising defence costs strain national budgets.
01:10this is the main priority of the Paris community.
01:14Analysts say enough,
01:15your nationality's power to consider more strategic occupation,
01:17at least not just the same place.
01:19Now, in the past,
01:20there's a rolling button.
01:21We ask the response to this contact the which we are going to repurpose,
01:24so we can remove it from the storage of the are of the countries with the Number-Doggers.
01:26And that's when the security of the country is in Berlin with the Patriots here in Europe.
01:29First, the monopoly of the U, the country is in the United States where we could use the country to find a way.
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