At the meeting of the leaders of the European Union, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, spoke sharply and militantly about relations with Russia.

She announced that the institution entrusted to her "condemns illegal, provocative and subversive Russian activities directed against the EU, countries within and outside of it." That is, Russia was declared a universal pest, and for a long time: “Russia has consistently challenged European interests and values ​​both in the past and in the present. We are witnessing an attempt to weaken the EU and conduct subversive activities against its member countries through hybrid threats, sabotage, assassination, divide and conquer tactics, cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. We have seen this course of action for years. It doesn't change. It only gets worse. "

Then, however, Frau Ursula, starting after the repose, finished for her health: “At the same time, the EU and Russia have a common future.

Russia is our largest neighbor and remains a source of trade and investment for the EU.

The lives of Europeans and Russians are intertwined along our common borders.

Russia is also an important force in the fight against global problems and in solving regional issues. "

Understand such ambivalence as you know.

Standartenführer Stirlitz believed that the last word is remembered in a conversation.

If you follow his teachings, the opening speech was the standard blah blah blah, and at the end Ursula hinted that scary words should not be taken too seriously.

See also the composition of Soviet party documents.

First, it is said for a long time how the Soviet people are keeping pace with the party, after which it is reported that, at the same time, there are some shortcomings.

Experienced people knew that they could skip “toe-to-toe” right away, and interesting things begin in the “along with it” section.

Again, the statement of the flexible French President Macron is also typical: “The policy of ever-escalating sanctions on frozen situations is no longer effective ... We asked for a review (in the context of the sanctions policy. - 

M. S.

) by June, which, in my opinion, is should lead to an understanding of what is Russia's strategy in the region and what will be an effective European response to this. "

That is, the position of the limitrophes, for whom everything has long and definitively been clear about the Russian strategy, and the position of France (a somewhat more significant power than any Lithuania), which will become clear only by June, differ.

That is, serious powers say one thing, frivolous ones say another.

About which it was noted for a long time: "When there is no agreement among the comrades, their business will not go well."

But Frau Ursula's bayiness mentioned above may be connected with one more circumstance.

Here it is interesting to recall the foreign policy rhetoric of the European Parliament, which rises in degrees almost daily - fortissimo, and then even more fortissimo.

That may be due to the fact that EP, generally speaking, no one can be called.

He can issue any resolutions on any issues, but even the Brussels bureaucracy frankly spit on them.

All the more so for the non-EU powers.

For the EP decides nothing and is the fifth wheel in the European cart.

But the European Commission (and the further, the faster) is moving towards the state of an independent EP, on which nothing depends. The period of the pandemic has shown that when there are really serious problems that need to be solved by joint efforts, the European structures go into the bushes: "The rescue of drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves." This is not the publication of circulars about the shape of European cucumbers and it is not a question of whether Portuguese carrot jam is considered to be equal to cherry or strawberry jam. These questions are truly life-changing, and a pandemic ... What a pandemic? The kings cannot cope with God's element. All the more so not to cope with the Brussels bureaucracy.

The epidemic shame may have been forgotten in Brussels, but it has not been forgotten either in Rome, or in Paris, or in Berlin.

To believe the soul and body for such a mediocre and irresponsible structure - thank you.

You told me to do it yourself?

So we will cope on the sly.

And you - it is not clear why they are needed.

The head of the EP, professore sinistro quasi uno mudaco David-Maria Sassoli, who is already being sent on an erotic journey on foot, understands this, and the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who is also on the line of travel, also understands.

And from understanding - they are especially angry and raise their tone to a piercing fistula.

What else can they do?

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.