Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris has said that the European Union is working on measures to immobilise Russian assets on “a longer-term basis”. Speaking ahead of his first meeting of Eurogroup ministers in Brussels this afternoon, Mr Harris said Ukraine would be a big focus of today’s discussions. A European Commission plan envisages that EU member states would issue a reparations loan of €165 billion to Ukraine from frozen Russian central bank assets, held at Euroclear, a Belgian-