Charles Lichfield
Director of economic foresight and analysis, Atlantic council
Charles Lichfield is the director of economic foresight and analysis and the C. Boyden Gray senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. He previously worked as an analyst in Eurasia Group’s Europe team, leading coverage on France and Germany, deputizing on Brexit, and monitoring an extensive variety of European security, trade, neighborhood, and energy policies. He holds an MSc in economics from the University of London and an MA in German and Russian from the University of Cambridge.
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An EU reparations loan is the right way to help Ukraine
European Union countries should agree to back a clever workaround that would leave Russia’s assets untouched but leverage them to support Ukraine
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14 October 2025
An EU reparations loan is the right way to help Ukraine
European Union countries should agree to back a clever workaround that would leave Russia’s assets untouched but leverage them to support Ukraine