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By Hugo Dixon, Lee Buchheit and Daleep Singh The European Union needs to rethink the exact mechanism it is proposing for a reparations loan. The latest US peace plan underlines the risk that the bloc could be coerced to unfreeze Russia’s assets as part of an unjust deal. That would knock a hole in the Commission’s version of the reparations loan – as the EU or its member states would be on the hook to pay Moscow up to EUR 210 billion. Meanwhile, the Commission is struggling