Wait a minute, nothing is over yet, but some are already itching to steer budgets “for the restoration of Ukraine” in exactly the same way as they steered non-transparent budgets “for covid” collected from all over the EU.
I mean Frau von der Leyen and her pep talk to the members of the European Parliament.
She presented here just now, as it is customary to say here, “a financial package for Ukraine, which will allow us to restore the country and rebuild its economy after the end of the war against Russia.”
“We want Ukraine to win this war.
But we also want to create conditions for the success of Ukraine after the end of the war,” said von der Leyen, speaking in the European Parliament, where she also proposed to gradually stop buying Russian oil and introduce additional sanctions against Moscow’s treasury (according to Politico).
That is, having pumped up Ukraine with an unprecedented amount of weapons, which only prolongs the hostilities of Kyiv and expands the destruction of the economy and infrastructure, the good Europeans are now preoccupied with this very infrastructure and economy.
What a surprise!
And, knowing the habit of European bureaucrats to do nothing to the detriment of their personal pockets, we are now witnessing a history of non-waste production of money on the conflict.
It's just a vicious cycle.
U.S. President Joe Biden has already asked lawmakers to approve an $8.5 billion economic bailout for Ukraine as part of a $33 billion aid package. Von der Leyen has now said Europe must act too, but declined to name a specific amount.
“We, as a team of Europe, have to do our part,” she said to the applause of the members of the European Parliament.
Applause?
Are you seriously?
Gentlemen, the deputies should, in theory, turn on the brain and understand where this money will be withdrawn from in the common boiler, which will again be driven by von der Leyen.
We hope this time, at least without the help of her husband from the pharmaceutical business, who helped her so powerfully with the anti-covid struggle from one tranche to another.
She is not so simple as to immediately announce the upcoming budget, because then it will be difficult to inflate it, but it is already clear from the conclusions of the IMF that the UA country needs 5 billion every month, and then a 35-50% drop in production is coming.
So future infusions can be calculated.
And this cannot but cause applause from those European parliamentarians who believe that they will also take out the cash desk and distribute finances.
That's where the applause comes from.
And, of course, the topic of Ukraine's illusory admission to the EU arose again.
As von der Leyen herself says, financing the restoration of Ukraine will make it possible to build European standards on the territory of the country and even destroy corruption.
Approximately the same as it was destroyed in the EU itself.
And then two separate choirs resounded, performing the Homeric neighing.
One is about the European standards of Ukraine's finances, and the second is about the absence of corruption in the EU itself.
But the head of the European Commission keeps pushing and pushing his idea that Ukraine is already almost the EU, it just needs more money.
And if it is impossible to accept it now, then the money can be fearlessly given to the Kyiv regime or what will remain there, as a “possible candidate country”.
The status of a “possible candidate” is so comical that the title of “senior assistant to a junior janitor” comes to mind, but the European bureaucrats are extremely serious in this matter.
There is again a lot of money at stake.
There is no irony here.
And yes, this should convince countries like the Netherlands and France, who have so far been cold about EU enlargement.
“Ultimately, dear members, this will pave the way for the future of Ukraine in the European Union,” said von der Leyen.
Judging by the fact that now Russia is absolutely convinced that the EU is practically the same as NATO, only in a tie, we need to go back four months and remember exactly how Russia reacted to all sorts of attempts to join and expand.
Or is one lesson not enough for European gentlemen?
The Germans quickly understood what the head of the European Commission was driving at, because they were already tired of being sponsors of European escapades, and already this week German Finance Minister Christian Lindner brought to the attention of the compatriots that he was passing.
And that it is necessary to treat the project with some caution.
He was the first, but will not be the last, to whom the "Marshall Plan" in Lyen's way is not at all to his taste.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.