Information noise

The general excitement about granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership causes at least misunderstanding.

Why so much joy?

After all, this is a purely symbolic gesture that does not oblige the Europeans themselves to anything.

It's just such a powerful information zilch for the summit, PR ideas, the illusion of unity, a compromise expression of solidarity without any guarantees and promises to give something in return.

The fact that the status will be granted was announced by the European trio during a trip to Kyiv.

And here Macron’s eternal “and at the same time” is the best suited for the situation and understanding the meaning of his words spoken in Kyiv.

Let's start with the fact that his whole trip is not about Ukraine at all.

This is about the parliamentary elections and the image of Macron himself.

Three days before the decisive vote, he relied on a foreign tour and the formation of the image of an almighty brave ruler, capable of doing big things with important people, while protecting the offended and disadvantaged.

Only the French were so tired of this, considering themselves disadvantaged from this whole situation, first of all, that they deprived Macron of the majority, in fact, paralyzing the future work of parliament and tying the president's hands.

The French press released a cartoon showing Macron clenching his fists in front of Zelensky and saying: “We will win!”

He replies with thanks for the support, to which Macron corrects him: “I’m not talking about you, actually.”

So his words about the need to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership were said only in order to show himself as a leader.

After all, for him, the current summit is the last during the French presidency of the EU Council, after all, one must remember at least something.

But interestingly, after talking with Zelensky, sitting in a richly furnished train compartment, the president talked with a journalist from the main French information channel, where he sent completely different signals about what was said.

“Ukraine, in principle, should not have become a candidate,” Macron said, “a candidate means that we are opening a process that can take years.”

And as an example, he further cited Serbia, which, according to Macron, has been joining the EU for eight years now.

Well, for starters, not eight, but already the 11th year has gone.

Although in the European echelons of power - who counts there ... And secondly, this is a very good example of how a country can be blackmailed for a long time and maliciously, trying to bend, nightmare, make it dance to the tune for many, many years for the sake of a carrot on a stick, which she will never get it.

Olaf Scholz recently openly told Aleksandar Vučić (although he could not reach the forehead of the tall Serbian president) that Serbia should first join the anti-Russian sanctions and recognize the independence of Kosovo.

Then the EU will think again.

To which Vucic answered him beautifully: “Just as you value the territorial integrity of Ukraine, we value the territorial integrity of Serbia.

Sorry".

And in general, the Serbs have no reason to believe the Europeans at all.

Their promises are not worth a cent.

After all, they told Belgrade that if their representative votes against Russia in the Human Rights Council at the UN, then an exception will be made for the country in matters of Russian oil supplies, they say, they will not be subject to the European embargo.

The vote was forced and shameful, Vučić admitted,

Looking at the decision on Ukraine, in Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina raise their eyebrows in surprise.

Because absolutely nothing depends on the speed of fulfillment of the European integration conditions - over the long years of waiting, they have already learned this well.

The leader of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, said that such an approach from Brussels “violates the only consensus that Croats, Serbs and Muslims could reach, and makes one wonder if the European path is the only one that Bosnia and Herzegovina should follow.

If this is the European Union that we aspired to, then thank you (keep it to yourself)."

Most of all, probably, Turkey's eye twitches.

She has been a candidate for EU membership since 1999, has been striding towards the EU for decades and still does not reach it.

Even the numbers on the cars were redone in a European way, but the officials still don’t like something.

Montenegro has also been waiting for its turn since 2012, and the situation is not moving anywhere.

What is all this for?

The granting of status only opens up the possibility of starting negotiations.

To start the process itself, a lot of things must first be done, then only a new meeting of all the leaders of the EU countries should take place, and only then a decision is made to open a dialogue.

And there are so many volumes and those that you can turn your head.

It is necessary to overcome corruption - yeah, in modern Ukraine nothing works differently at all, and more than one year already, if not a dozen years.

This is a country with a population similar to Spain, a standard of living below the poorest country in the EU and an economy in ruins.

It is unlikely that the European Union will be able to digest it, for which the acquisition will become a bottomless barrel, into which billions will have to be poured in without a guarantee that they will go to work.

And then today the EU is split into different blocs, political decisions are often blocked either by Eastern Europe, or Northern, or Western.

There are even proposals to give up the right of veto, but neither France nor Germany will agree to this.

There is one more unpleasant nuance for Europe.

And what to do with Nazism, which, it seems, for Brussels does not exist in Ukraine, but everyone understands everything.

It’s one thing they are raging inside their country, and another thing is that it should somehow fit into the values ​​​​of the European Union.

And now the same French information channel that took an exclusive interview with Macron on the train carefully says that one of the problems in the issue of granting status to Ukraine is the streets named after the Nazi heroes of the Second World War, and cites Bandera Avenue as an example.

Of course, they don’t talk about all his deeds, they very delicately point out that it will be difficult to explain this to Europeans, perhaps it will be necessary to pick up lesser-known people from Ukrainian history.

Although SS marches took place in the Baltic countries more than once - and nothing, no one cared.

Be that as it may, it is obvious that no one will integrate a country in its current state into the EU.

Moreover, it was not in vain that Macron, speaking on May 9 in Strasbourg, again spoke about some kind of supra-European political association, into the orbit of which everyone, including Great Britain, can fall.

This idea is becoming more and more popular behind the scenes, since it does not require any financial costs from the EU and does not obligate you to anything.

And the Balkan countries, Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova can easily get into such an alliance.

States united by one desire to get what is in fact unattainable for them.

So for now, all these entry statuses are just signals.

For some, they are positive, for others, by design, defiantly tough, but in fact empty and unnecessary, because in reality they will not help to solve any of the tasks set.

They just create a lot of information noise.

It must be admitted that the Europeans are great masters in this.

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