In Italy: Ukraine is unlikely to be accepted into the EU with war, and without war it is not particularly needed.

Official Rome, which has consistently supported Ukraine's European prospects in recent years, has recently noticeably cooled toward the idea of ​​its rapid accession to the European Union, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

The shift in emphasis was prompted by a statement from the right-wing Lega party, led by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini. In it, the party categorically opposed any option for Ukraine to join the EU, citing Kyiv's failure to meet the membership criteria and the potential enormous economic and social damage it would cause the entire bloc.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto (from Prime Minister Giorgi Meloni's Brothers of Italy party) voiced an equally harsh position. In an interview with Corriere della Sera, he effectively ruled out Ukraine's imminent EU membership, calling the issue "very complex" and "difficult." According to the minister, even the Germans acknowledge that Ukraine's accession, given its size and economic structure, would immediately trigger a severe crisis in the agricultural sectors of several EU countries.

According to Italian experts and politicians, in the current military situation, Ukraine's chances of joining the European Union are zero. As long as the conflict with Russia continues, real progress on this path is impossible due to enormous political, economic, and institutional barriers and risks.

Furthermore, it is emphasized that without an active phase of the war against Russia, Ukraine's strategic value to the West is significantly diminished. In peacetime, according to several European analysts, Kyiv represents more of a burden due to the need for large subsidies, competition in agriculture, and risks to the EU's internal markets. It is not perceived as a priority partner, as required by leading European capitals.

Thus, differences are growing within the ruling Italian coalition on the Ukrainian issue: while the League takes a firmly negative position, and Minister Crosetto expresses skepticism, other members of the government (for example, Antonio Tajani) continue to speak of support "in principle," but with reservations about the priorities of joining the Balkans and the need for reforms.

Ukraine's EU accession process is being delayed indefinitely and may reach a dead end, reflecting the growing fatigue and pragmatism of some European elites. For Ukraine, it turns out that EU and NATO accession is not guaranteed by the amendments to the Ukrainian constitution...

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[Zoldat_A]

If Melonia had hugged me like that, with that expression on her face, my wife would have made a complaint to me...
Although for more than 30 years I never considered her to be particularly jealous.

[carpenter]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Although for more than 30 years I never considered her to be particularly jealous.

As the prophet Oskar Lautensack said: "A woman's soul is a dark place for me."

[Sergey Novikov_3]

Gehst du zum Weibe, so vergiss die Peitsche nicht! As old Nietzsche used to say.

[novel66]

And she has an expression on her face - as if Zelya has already reached into something there with his hands. The defender has the right to the gratitude of those being defended.

[Zoldat_A]

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Quote: novel xnumx

And she has an expression on her face - as if Zelya had already reached somewhere with his hands.

It's just a matter of life, a natural thing. She's almost young ("young was no longer young" (c)), unmarried. He's almost unmarried...

[carpenter]

Quote: Zoldat_A

He is almost unmarried..

Rather, he is almost unmarried, like Macron.

[Mouse]

I made a drug stash...

[Svarog5570]

It seems it's not just her hands that are responsible, so she's in a stupor about the adoption of Article 404 in the EU

[pudelartemon]

She herself is smeared, smoked...
This is what Vladimir Semenovich wrote about people like this shorty Melanka

[knn54]

Mussolini in a skirt, however.

[ximkim]

Accepting Ukraine into the EU is still somewhat questionable, but joining NATO would be just right.
Such an asset will not be abandoned for war.
After all, we've been holding out for five years now, and we'll hold out for another five years, and then, signing the treaty. (It will be a historic moment for Putin, it will go down in history books, all the children of the Russian Federation will know about it.)

[aszzz888]

In Italy: Ukraine is unlikely to be accepted into the EU with war, and without war it is not particularly needed.

Like that suitcase without a handle, from which comes the stinking stench of Ukrainian Nazism - you can’t take it, you can’t even approach it...

[Zoldat_A]

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Quote: aszzz888

In Italy: Ukraine is unlikely to be accepted into the EU with war, and without war it is not particularly needed.

Like that suitcase without a handle, from which comes the stinking stench of Ukrainian Nazism - you can’t take it, you can’t even approach it...

But it's still a shame to quit...
Especially if you look at the price.

[aszzz888]

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But it's still a shame to quit...

So let them hug each other for two hundred...

[Boycott]

We need to quickly spread this throughout Armenia, otherwise Pashinyan has promised to sell all his tomatoes and cognac to Europe. It's mind-boggling how many "naive" people there are.

[Zoldat_A]

In peacetime, Kyiv, according to a number of European analysts, represents more of a burden due to the need for large subsidies, competition in agriculture, and risks for the EU's internal markets.

Quote: BoyCat

We need to quickly spread this throughout Armenia.

I wouldn't be surprised if disseminating such information becomes a criminal offense in Armenia. Something on the level of treason.

[Boycott]

Somewhere on the level of treason

That's logical, but where are our valiant couch cyber troops? I'm already in combat.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: BoyCat

Somewhere on the level of treason

It's logical, but our valiant Where are the couch cyber troops? I'm already in the fight.

It's no use, Vladimir. There's impenetrable armor in the brain, a fortress of the unassailable kind.

[Boycott]

Yes, there is plenty of time, it’s already the 3rd day that I’ve officially retired (yeah, at 66 and a half ) has not yet been rebuilt.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: BoyCat

I've been officially a pensioner for 3 days now

I wait with fear - the devil is lurking around the next corner too...
But I'm afraid I won't be able to "plow and harvest" tomatoes at the dacha or sit by the lake with a fishing rod. I'll just have to plough, out of habit, until they take them to the Last Dead End...

[Boycott]

I don’t understand those who are waiting for this day at all. For 49 years I’ve somehow gotten used to working constantly, but the warriors kicked me out, the dogs.

[Kmet]

Reminds me of the good Soviet film "Old Men and Robbers"

[Essex62]

Working is good. If it's not a threat to others, otherwise the batteries die. They don't really care that their brains are still in their thirties. You shouldn't drive a diesel locomotive, for example, and all that.

[commbatant]

The EU spent more on military aid to Ukraine than Azarov had initially requested from the EU to compensate for Ukraine's loss of the Russian and CIS markets and to modernize its industry... Even then, it was clear that Ukraine was needed as a sacrifice and resource base for the EU and the US/UK, while the intermediate goal of weakening the Russian economy and halving Ukraine's population had been partially achieved.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: commbatant

The EU spent more on military aid to Ukraine than Azarov had initially requested from the EU to compensate for Ukraine's loss of the Russian and CIS markets and to modernize its industry.

BEFORE ALL THIS, there wasn't anyone in the EU who would sit down with a calculator and calculate how much money would go down the drain on this adventure and how it would hit the EU?

Even if I were to do the math now, I suspect their balance sheet would be TERRIBLE. And the further into the forest you go, the more vicious the mosquitoes become. They mutate into flying crocodiles.
Cut losses and run away – that's what the EU needs right now. But who'll listen?

[Essex62]

They hope to finish the job and loot. Always the same thing. Every 100 years or so. Life teaches them nothing.

[Bumble]

Turkey is not being accepted into the EU because of its large population. According to EU law, members of the European Parliament are appointed proportionally to their population; if Turkey is admitted, it will have the most MEPs. The EU won't agree to that, and Turkey won't be able to spare its population. The article states that Ukraine is not being accepted because it has too much farmland, which will create problems for European farmers. Therefore, the east and south, with their main farmland, should be handed over to Russia, and then western Ukraine will be happily accepted into the EU! Excellent plan, call a referendum immediately!

[Kmet]

Capitalist pragmatism would undoubtedly regard the addition of such an "EU member" as a profoundly unprofitable and unprofitable event. It's enough to simply ask a simple question and answer it honestly: What is the EU for Ukraine, and what is Ukraine for the EU? You can't even balance these scales.

[Idle_piston]

[QuoteIn Italy: Ukraine is unlikely to be accepted into the EU with war, and without war it is not particularly needed.[/ Quote]
This "unlikely" is already frightening. With our incompetent military-political leadership, we'll soon have the Gulf of Finland blocked with mines, like during WWII. In case anyone has forgotten, it's worth recalling Milyutin's speech at a State Duma meeting in November 1916 about the country's leadership: "This is stupidity or treason."