The European Parliament protects Eastern Europe from Russia ...
The mere fact that Russia somehow got on the agenda of the European Parliament, which has nothing to do with Russia and its citizens, has a lot to say.
During one of the meetings, the European Commissioner for the so-called enlargement and neighborhood policy said that Russia is increasingly putting pressure on countries invited by the European Union to participate in the Eastern Partnership program. That, you understand, the price of gas raises, it builds up additional duty barriers, then God knows what comes up ...
It should be noted that the Eastern Partnership program today includes six states, and all of them are among the former Soviet republics. These are Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. The Eastern Partnership itself was born in May 2008, and the authors of this project were Polish and Swedish diplomats. It was Poland and Sweden who suddenly suddenly wanted to find partners in Belarus, Azerbaijan and other listed states ... Poland and Sweden were supported by other delegations to the European Parliament, and the “partnership” began to turn. And it’s spinning and spinning, forgive, Lord, the partnership is so active that economic and political sanctions were imposed on one of the partners, Belarus, in response to which Alexander Lukashenko banished the EU ambassadors from Minsk (until the new call for a truce) ... The “partnership” was spinning and spinning in such a way that it did not prevent certain European parliamentarians from declaring the Azerbaijani internal political system “half-closed authoritarianism”. Another “partner” - the president of Ukraine - was repeatedly accused of political repression against opponents (talking about the deadline for Yulia Tymoshenko) and demanded to cancel the court decision, threatening sanctions against the whole of Ukraine. The Moldovan "partners" were "encouraged" by the words about the most unproductive economy in the whole of Europe, stating that the only option for such an economic system is the total foreign privatization of enterprises and banks.
In general, "good neighborliness" literally rushing from all cracks ...
So, the European Commissioner by the name of Füle, you see, does not like the way Russia behaves with those countries that are with it in the neighborhood and are included in the aforementioned Eastern Partnership. Stefan Füle, who represents the Czech political sector in the EU, said that the European Union will provide full support to the states that are experiencing the quote on themselves “excessive pressure from Russia”.
The countries of the Eastern Partnership, apparently, have already held their breath in anticipation of the great European gifts, which will sweeten the "bitterness of Russian pressure." But the anticipation after a couple of minutes was replaced by an acid mine. The fact is that he himself, Stephen Füle, apparently forgot what he was just saying, suddenly stumbled upon the criticism of all the same "eastern partners."
According to the first number, the Belarusian leader, who was accused of unwillingness to go towards European diplomacy, got the Belarusian leader. Fule noted that the European Union is already ready to meet Belarus in its tender (in Europe now without this nowhere ...) hugs, but for this Alexander Lukashenko needs to fulfill a number of European “partner” conditions. For the general list of conditions regarding the Belarusian president had to use a very extensive document.
Here are just a few of these many conditions: the indispensable moratorium on the death penalty, the recognition of the presence of political prisoners in Belarus, access of independent lawyers to political prisoners, the end of the persecution of “critics of the regime” (just as in partnership and said: regime ...), joint work with European parliamentarians and other European institutions for the development of an active civil society in Belarus, holding transparent elections. To enhance the effect in the document, it was necessary to add one more item: “the control over the execution of the above items by Alexander Lukashenko is entrusted to the NATO contingent, which must be urgently introduced into the Republic of Belarus” ...
It came from European politicians who gathered at the session, and Armenia, and Azerbaijan, and Moldova. The Armenian President was reminded of the desire to integrate Armenia into the Customs Union. Azerbaijan, the same Stefan Fule, blamed for purchases of Russian weapons. Moldova was also remembered for the unconfirmed sale of weapons to Armenia, which contributed to the possibility of an escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
In general, they gave out to all the sisters by the earrings ... And after that, they began to blur in compliments that democracy in the countries of the Eastern Partnership, despite everything, is developing, and the EU is standing ovation. It all looked something like this: you all have a lot of flaws, but the European Union is ready to forgive you for all these flaws, if only you forget about contacts with Russia. They say that we understand that this affects your neighborhood of Moscow, and therefore we are ready to help you in our way, in a European way ...
But for Russia, the European Union can be repaid with the same coin: create some kind of “Western partnership”, the approximate composition of which is: Greece, Cyprus, Serbia; and declare that the EU pressure on these states goes beyond all borders and “something needs to be done about it” ... The Syrian situation perfectly showed that Russia has learned to hold informational blows. So I would not have missed this Fule a good hook, which would have hurt his desire to grind heresy ...
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