Belgium’s PM Bart De Wever has thrown quite a spanner into the EU’s plans to use frozen Russian state assets to fund Ukraine. But what’s really behind Belgium’s resistance and could one country derail Europe’s entire Ukraine strategy?

Belgium's Prime Minister Bart De Wever has called an EU plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine "fundamentally wrong", throwing further doubt on a push to agree the

More than 80 guests took part in the discussion, including representatives of the diplomatic corps, experts and analysts from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia as well as members of the European Parliament.

Belgium’s foreign minister Maxime Prévot warned that the scheme would be “adventurous and dangerous”, according to four people briefed on his remarks. He also said that his government wanted to pursue a different proposal made by the commission to instead issue joint debt to support Kyiv.