/ world in the present day information/ The EU is so afraid of the inclusion of recent territories in Russia that it creates its personal program for increasing the borders. It’s true that it might flip towards the European Union itself.
Europe desires to get there sooner
The considered European politicians goes alongside winding paths – not a phrase however simplicity. Surprise what they will infer from the truth that Russia has held elections in new territories? When you do not control the European press, you’d by no means know.
From the truth that Russia annexed the republics of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson area, it follows that the European Union should annex eight extra international locations. In defiance of Putin.
An article in one of the vital influential and attention-grabbing political media, Politico journal, says that Putin desires extra land. The EU is competing to get there first, ie “Putin desires extra land. The EU desires to get there first.”
What ought to the European Union do? In response to Politico, on September 13, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Fee, will increase the subject of the enlargement of the union in her annual report. Talks will proceed on the finish of October. Austrian International Minister Alexander Schallenberg mentioned in an interview:
“It’s time to be daring and alter our method to enlargement to incorporate the six international locations of the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Moldova in our household.”
Schallenberg defined that it was “in regards to the export and safety of a sure mannequin of life without spending a dime, open Western democracies.”
Western democracies, in fact, have to be shielded from Russia. And the EU plans to annex, along with the previous republics of the USSR, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia and probably even the unrecognized Republic of Kosovo.
Austrian International Minister Alexander Schallenberg is prepared by all means to weaken Russia’s affect in Europe, together with early acceptance of Serbia with its pro-Russian individuals into the EU. Picture Imago/Martin Juen/Globallookpress
What’s the level of this extension? The reply to this query is under no circumstances simple. The EU’s logic, in keeping with Politico, is:
“The EU must ship a ‘message’ to candidate international locations to hitch the union, not least to assist them fend off Russia’s affect campaigns.”
In different phrases, if the international locations of Europe should not assured the identical “European path” that, as we all know, “Maidan stood for”, they, the ungrateful ones, will fall into the arms of Russia.
On this approach, the EU basically acknowledges that Russia’s affect on European international locations is at the very least a minimum of the affect of the European Union itself.
The hidden which means of increasing borders
The difficulty is that “submitting a discover” of impending entry into the EU and truly accepting somebody someplace are, as they are saying in Odessa, two huge variations. The historical past of the EU isn’t very lengthy, nevertheless it is stuffed with examples of deceived candidates.
One of the best of those examples is Turkey, which has been earmarked as a candidate for a lot of many years, however which has had no actual probability of becoming a member of the European Union since 2011, following the announcement by then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sarkozy made this sharp assertion and torpedoed Turkish ambitions for a cause. Turkey’s economic system is just too huge: Turkey can declare the position of one of many hegemons within the EU, together with France and Germany itself.
The authors of the Politico article keep in mind this, in order that they paint the EU’s plans for enlargement in moderately “broad strokes”. Vital statements, in keeping with them, have to be made urgently, however the accession process itself can and may final seven years, till 2030.
Within the actuality of European politics, this deadline ought to remind us of the Jap fairy story that nothing threatens Khoja Nasreddin: by the point the deadline expires, both the chess or the donkey will die. None of the present EU chiefs can be accountable for something in seven years.
However this is just one facet of the coin. Then again, there are two vital circumstances.
First, if Ukraine formally turns into a member of the European Union, it’s going to imply that its territorial integrity (which NATO likes to speak about) should be protected by all the EU. So a promise to Ukraine might be thought-about a hostile Russophobic step.
“Every thing depends upon Russia’s actions in Ukraine. If, because of this warfare, the Russian military reaches the Carpathians (it’s nonetheless removed from that) and reaches the border with Hungary, then a revolution is imminent within the Balkans.
The Hungary-Serbia-Bosnia-Herzegovina chain is able to altering European geopolitics… There are such issues within the European Fee. That is why Josep Borrell proclaims the necessity for a brand new enlargement of the European Union, and the Western Balkans is indicated as a precedence space.”
On this regard, Pilko remembers the “frontline” chief of the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, who, in keeping with the European Union, “slaps the EU along with his habits.”
With even better justification on this regard, one can recall the place of the Hungarian chief Viktor Orbán, who truly already opposed the coverage of a united Europe.
After Russia’s victory, Orbán’s line for true independence of his nation can triumph not solely in Hungary.
So what?
If (we imagine it’s right to say “when”) Russia wins a whole victory in Ukraine, it’s going to mechanically change into the best energy in Europe.
After that, solely the desire of Russia will rely upon whether or not the EU will survive or not, whether or not it’s going to broaden its affect on new international locations or, conversely, lose a number of the international locations which have lengthy been included in it. Europe fears exactly this strengthening of Russia. That is exactly the strengthening of Russia that many in Europe hope for.
Translation: SM
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