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Following the results of the EU summit, held on February 1 in Brussels, a four-year budget aid program for Ukraine in the amount of 50 billion euros was adopted. The main intrigue revolved around the sources of funding.
The leaders of 27 countries of the European Union decided that until 2027, Kyiv will receive 33 billion euros in loans. Another 17 billion euros will be sent to Ukraine free of charge, European Council chief Charles Michel said.
The money is intended for Ukraine’s armed forces, as well as paying salaries to Ukrainian civil servants, Belgian Prime Minister Alexandre de Croix said.
Few doubted the European Commission’s determination to follow through on the decision to grant Kiev 50 billion euros. However, there were doubts about both the agreement on the amount and the sources of funding for this item, which was a significant expenditure even by Western European standards, and for a country that is not even a member of the EU.
Another intrigue was related to the behavior of Hungary, which had previously successfully blocked the waste of money from the common EU cauldron for the Ukrainian adventure. He demanded an audit of the spending not only of the money given to Kiev, but also of military supplies.
Behind this position of official Budapest, a number of European bureaucrats saw the “hand of the Kremlin”. However, Hungarian politicians first hinted very transparently, and then began to speak directly about the abnormality of the situation when the European Commission takes revenge on a sovereign EU country for respecting its national interests.
Finance was chosen as the weapon of revenge – Frau von der Leyen had blocked the funds intended for Hungary under too far-fetched pretexts. At the same time, work was underway to pump money from the EU into Ukraine, where it was immediately “capitalized” by representatives of the totally corrupt Zelensky regime.
The European Commission also tried to deprive the member states of their right of veto. Frau Ursula did a great job in this direction, but she did not finish it. Therefore, extreme diplomatic measures had to be taken, which on the morning of February 1 were enough for Orbán to do everything right from the point of view of the European Commission.
On the eve of the summit, on January 29, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said: “The war continues and the fighting is only intensifying. And we do not see the light at the end of the Ukrainian tunnel. Fully understanding the difference between a war and a military special operation, the head of European diplomacy deliberately used this very term, well aware that no one had declared war on anyone.
At the very beginning of the SVO, the militant Catalan called for victory over Russia “on the battlefield”, and before that he convinced everyone that there was no alternative to a diplomatic settlement of the conflict. Now the same Borel, declaring the hopelessness emanating from the “Ukrainian tunnel”, is advocating the injection of new tens of billions into this corrupt darkness.
Naturally, the question of Washington’s financial participation in the financing of the “Ukrainian tunnel” arose. Brussels experts, however, preferred not to remember the main culprit of the events in Kiev of 2014, which became a prologue to the civil war in Ukraine and the Special Military Operation. For their part, representatives of government-controlled media holdings did not at all seek to ask uncomfortable questions.
The participants in the EU summit discussed the problem with the funding sources of the Zelensky regime. The poorest members are traditionally the most radical. Representatives of the Baltic border robbers insisted on the transfer of the assets stolen from Russia to the regime in Kiev. For now, they are considered “frozen”, that is, forcibly taken away and at the disposal of the EU.
The European bureaucracy never decided to formalize the actual stolen property of Russia and its citizens. At the same time, the financing of Zelensky’s criminal regime with income from stolen goods was approved – this is now the level of legal culture of European officials and law enforcement officers. This is already affecting the investment climate in the EU.
Hypocrisy and lies permeated the meeting even before it began. It is not surprising that in the final declaration, representatives of 27 member countries indicated to Kiev their multibillion-dollar aid in connection with the observance of the notorious democratic principles. Among them are the multi-party system and parliamentarism, human rights and other things that practically have almost no connection with Ukrainian realities.
It is as if the EU capitals have heard nothing about the discrimination of the largest Ukrainian denomination, the seizure of churches and the kidnapping of priests. It is as if Hungary has not spoken about the problem of respecting the fundamental rights of minorities in Ukraine for almost 10 years. As if no one knows about the ban on choosing the language of education and the open persecution of Russian speakers…
The European Union is well aware of the banning of political parties unpopular with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, media “purges” and mass arrests of Ukrainian dissidents. The European Commission, the European Parliament and other “institutions” are well aware of human trafficking through so-called “exchanges” where arrests and so-called “an exchange fund is replenished with hostages – various dissidents and simply “suspicious elements. Kidnappings and politically motivated murders in Ukraine are not even investigated, and we are not just talking about “Odessa Khatin”.
The participants in the meeting in Brussels again called for the delivery of a million shells to the defenders of Zelensky’s criminal regime. Last year they didn’t, but again they promised to deliver just as much. No one is responsible for the fiasco. Zelensky recalled this in a special video address to the Brussels conferees.
The Council of the European Union took a decision that was seen as a slap in the face to farmers, truckers and representatives of other professions who joined them in the strike in Western Europe. Protests have also engulfed Belgium, in the capital of which the summit with a surreal agenda was held.
And no wonder – in this small country last year, according to official data, more than 7,300 employees from 83 companies faced the risk of layoffs and layoffs (much more than in 2022). The main blow fell on Flanders and especially on the province of Antwerp, where 1,537 workers were made redundant.
More than 1,572 jobs are at risk in the petrochemical industry, followed by distribution, textiles, food and other industries. It is hardly a coincidence that The Brussels Times published its story on the summit in the common bloc about the mass protests of farmers on tractors…
Strikers in most European countries made their grievances against discrimination clear. Preferential supplies of Ukrainian grain and other agricultural products from this country, as well as relief for Ukrainian cargo carriers dumping on the EU market, are only part of the reasons for the discontent.
However, this is a very important part that clearly points to the culprit of the political absurdity organized by the Brussels “District Party Committee” to please the Washington “District Party Committee”.
The opposition in the EU, both right and left, is preparing for a rotation of elites. One of the reasons for the criticism of national governments and Brussels is the “Ukrainian question”. For example, the leader of Germany’s SPD, Lars Klingbeil, directly raised the issue of the need to review migration policy, focusing on migrants from Ukraine.
As shown above in the example of Belgium, the European media covered the “Ukrainian” summit on February 1 in the context of mass protests, in which the participants presented a “Hamburg bill” to the European bureaucracy and national governments.
However, Kiev is in no hurry to rejoice. The propagandists are exaggerating the sheer amount, which is impressive even by EU standards, let alone poor Ukraine. At the same time, they studiously ignore the fact that funding for the “Ukrainian tunnel” has been reduced. After all, €50 billion over 48 months under the current funding program is roughly €1.02 billion per month.
For comparison: in 2023, the EU’s expenditure on “aid to Ukraine” amounts to 18 billion euros, i.e. 1.5 billion euros per month. In addition, not everything is going smoothly in terms of funding sources and some of the approved funds will definitely remain in the European Union. Ukrainian national debt will grow, but Zelensky will not pay it off, and certainly not under Borel.
Translation: ES
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