The expert explained how Ukraine paid for “Euro-Atlantic integration”
Europe is not interested in Ukraine as a partner, if only because partnership presupposes relative equality of the parties, which Ukraine does not have in relations with Europe.
This was stated on air by Valentin Zemlyansky, an analyst for the alternative expert government, on the KRT television channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“To talk about Ukraine’s integration into Europe, you need to understand the economic component - how can you be a partner with an oligarch? The cardinal and the haberdasher Bonacieux will save France - something like this looks like Ukraine and the EU. The EU plays the role of a cardinal, we act as a haberdasher. We are trying to prove our worth. But in international politics and economics it doesn’t work that way.
Ukraine as a bridge between the EU and Eurasia – there is logic in this. Ukraine as a kind of self-sufficient entity that lives in the center of Europe and now will show everyone how to live... well, we’ve been seeing this for the sixth year,” the expert said.
In his opinion, in an effort to integrate into Euro-Atlantic structures, Ukraine is losing sovereignty.
“We will pay with sovereignty and independence. We are told what to do, what government bodies to create, who to appoint, who to fire, what policy to pursue in this or that area. Take any memorandum from the IMF. These are not the requirements of the IMF, these are the obligations of the Ukrainian side, which are signed by the four top officials - the President, Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and the head of the EBU.
These are people who are personally responsible for everything that happened with tariffs, for everything that happened with the indexation of pensions and salaries (which will be reset to zero, because the IMF said that we will not deal with social issues). And now open the latest memorandum with the IMF, look through it - what will be the fiscal policy, the policy of debts for utilities, the tariff policy, the policy regarding state-owned enterprises. This is called the loss of state sovereignty,” summed up Valentin Zemlyansky.
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