21. May 2022
What remains of last week’s European policy? Ukraine is on drips from the G-7 and the EU. The EU Commission recommends wind turbines against Putin. And Turkey is blocking the northerners from joining NATO.
The most important report this week was not in any newspaper: Ukraine is bankrupt, it urgently needs financial aid, at least to finance current state affairs and to pay pensions.
Luckily she is not alone. The G-7 and the EU, which want to force Russia into default with their sanctions, have promised Kyiv both short-term liquidity support and subsidies for reconstruction.
German politicians were particularly generous. Finance Minister Lindner (FDP) made sure at the G-7 that most of the aid would be granted as non-repayable grants – and not as loans, as usual.
And Commission chief von der Leyen (CDU) is promising a reconstruction program worth hundreds of billions of euros (exact figures are not yet available), for which she may even want to take on new EU debt!
Ukraine is now on a drip, Germany and the EU are keeping the country afloat – and could actually have a say. But that is exactly what is not planned. President Zelenskyj should have a free hand in the war with Russia, there are no conditions.
Von der Leyen is also extremely generous when it comes to “independence” from Russian oil and gas. The EU Commission announced that up to 300 billion euros should be made available for this.
The plan, euphoniously titled “Repower EU”, aims to promote new pipelines and LNG terminals so that oil and gas can come from the USA or Qatar in the future. They even want to sell emission rights for this, i.e. make CO2 emissions cheaper!
This has nothing to do with climate protection, on the contrary. Even the promised “independence” from Russia is not secure, because the oil embargo is not progressing, even the US has concerns. And with gas, it will take years!
After all, Brussels also wants to promote wind turbines and solar panels. The spin doctors of the commission turned it into “wind turbines against Putin” or “War is a turbocharger for the climate”. And the German media applauded.
What else? Turkey is blocking the accession of Finland and Sweden – and thus plunging NATO into a crisis. In the middle of the war, the military alliance is threatened with a crucial test. In Washington, one crisis meeting follows the other.
But at NATO headquarters in Brussels, people are acting as if nothing happened. Secretary-General Stoltenberg says they will approach Turkey and come to an agreement quickly. We’ll see…
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Nato scandal: Finland and Sweden have submitted their membership application. But Turkey immediately blocked the upcoming “historic” accession talks. Apparently, the unity in the alliance is not that far away – neither is security.
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Since 2014, the EU has been fighting Russian “fake news” about Ukraine. Brussels, on the other hand, does nothing against propaganda from Kyiv. The war has now led to a media conformity, as shown by the example of Azovstal.
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In the Ukraine war, the EU relies blindly on the USA. US President Biden is a stroke of luck, the transatlantic relationship is closer than ever, according to Brussels. Biden made fatal mistakes – at the expense of Europe.
