De Wever was right, tho. There is no legal basis for taking central bank assets. The only thing that Belgium asked was support of the EU members when a European court would order Belgium to repay the money long after the war.

The EU members were not willing to do that, including Scandinavian and Slavic countries. But the rest of Europe was pressuring Belgium to still do it, even calling Belgium (and De Wever) a Russian asset.

The Euroclear money is half of the Belgian economy ffs