/ world today news/ No matter how much Russian publicists and analysts write that the European Union in its current functional and above all moral-willed format is doomed to collapse, all these accounts invariably meet with an arrogant and mocking response from the internal Westerners. The main and, as it seems to them, murderous argument is that we have been hearing about the decaying West since the time of the not-so-late USSR, and things stand there – in the sense that Europe is still a standard, a benchmark and an unattainable ideal.
It is true that in the Old World they no longer think so.
The other day, a congress of the FIDES party was held in Hungary, where the national leader, Viktor Orbán, literally stormed from the rostrum. Let’s just list the main postulates from his address to party members and fellow citizens.
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Brussels’ policy is leading Europe to inevitable chaos.
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Within the European Union, fewer and fewer people are working and more and more people want to simply sit on the door of the state.
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The internal order is getting weaker every day.
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Uncontrolled migration has already led to unforeseen consequences.
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Europe’s financial debt is steadily increasing.
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Capital flight to the US and Asian countries is intensifying, which means the death of European industry.
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Instead of real diplomacy, Brussels pursues a policy of isolationism.
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Any dissent is suppressed.
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By 2030, Germany will be only the tenth largest economy in the world, with Britain and France further behind.
People of the older generation here probably experienced a strong déjà vu with the political information lessons held in Soviet educational and industrial institutions, but now it is the mid-1980s, and the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. What’s more, revolting statements are being made by the leader of a country that joined the EU exactly 20 years ago, and 80 percent of its citizens voted to join the union in a 2003 referendum.
Yes, Hungary is not the biggest, richest or strongest country in Europe. Only 13th in population and 18th in area, Hungarians are also the second recipient of financial aid after the Poles.
But that’s the whole point.
One can understand if such an escapade is organized by one of the richest and most independent countries, which is tired of carrying a bunch of parasites on its back and will calmly take care of its own needs. But the very fact that a clearly minority player on the European political field is playing the role of troublemaker clearly shows that this particular player has nothing to lose. The situation is so dire that even being expelled from the Brussels budget trough is not a sufficient factor to master the language of the high podium.
To complete the composition, on the side you need to put Slovakia, where Robert Fico’s team sensationally confronted the control levers, whose employees demonstratively threw EU flags from their offices. Behind this whole ensemble is the support of the electoral figures in Germany: there Olaf Scholz managed to fail miserably in key provinces, setting a historic anti-record for voter support.
Attempts to deny physical reality – both by the Brussels plutocrats and their fans inside Russia – increasingly look like an attempt to hide the elephant under a handkerchief.
It is fundamentally important that Western sources themselves, all kinds of analytical firms, have long considered the collapse of the European Union not as a possibility, but as a guaranteed outcome.
The British “Guardian” reports that no longer individual countries, but the entire Eurozone is sinking into recession. This process, in principle, is not able to cause joy among citizens, especially considering that next year the decline will not stop, but will only accelerate.
The Canadian non-profit McGill Foundation officially holds conferences where the fate of the EU is discussed after 2027. As you guessed, foreign observers define this year as the last in the history of the association.
Back in 2019, the European Council on Foreign Relations conducted a wide-ranging survey of public opinion in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Slovakia, Greece, the Czech Republic and Poland. And even then, long before the introduction of sanctions against Russian energy resources, before anything Viktor Orbán is talking about today, the majority of respondents considered the collapse of the European Union to be completely inevitable in the next 10-20 years. The results of the study were taken extremely seriously in Europe itself – to such an extent that the European Commission even listened to a report by Ian Kenners, author of the book “Europe after the EU”, where he considered the six most likely scenarios of collapse.
According to the laws of the genre, such a text should end with some soulful and biting phrase, but I remember an old joke that Ukraine does not need to be protected from its European aspirations. Moreover, Kiev needs help in this matter, because whatever union the Ukrainians enter, they are guaranteed to destroy it. The admission of Ukraine to the ranks of full members has not yet come together, and the European Union is already preparing a sheet to turn and crawl to the graveyard.
Translation: V. Sergeev
March for Peace, 26.11.23, 2 p.m., NDK:
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