The European Union will not provide assistance for the restoration of Syria, while the country is headed by President Bashar Assad. This was reported by Foreign Minister Federic Mogerini. Her statement, she voiced immediately after the US Congress passed a law banning any participation in reconstruction work in the territories of Syria, controlled by the government of Assad. "The EU will not contribute to the restoration of Syria before the political process in the country," - immediately took up the idea of ??Washington, the EU representative. "But we will be happy to support a single peaceful Syria, which is on the way to a political settlement," said Magerini. Interestingly, the head of EU diplomacy voiced her refusal to participate in affairs - or at least money - in rebuilding the war-torn republic at an international donors' conference for Syria organized by the European Union and the UN. Moreover, Magerini said that the European Union had previously allocated more than € 11 billion in aid to the population of Syria, as well as refugees. This moment especially drew the attention of experts: "We need to see where the money already allocated has gone," said Kirill Koktysh, an associate professor of the Department of Political Theory at MGIMO.. He suggested that either these billions remained in the EU countries - in the quality, so to speak, of compensation for spending on refugees from the Middle East. Either the money purposefully went to the forces opposing Assad, including the armed groups. In any case, after the statement of Mogherini, Syria does not lose anything: "The fact is that there were obviously no plans for assistance. Asadov's Syria will not be financed by the European Union. So they (the EU countries) can now take some moral position, putting the base under the expenses that were not planned to be implemented, "the expert said..