Kiev continues to gnaw Europe
The European Commission approved the next program of financial assistance to Ukraine. Despite the highest level of corruption in the Kiev regime and the odiousness of Petro Poroshenko, Brussels does not refuse policy financial incentives to the Ukrainian authorities. This time the European Union was going to help Kiev for 1 billion euros. Where does this money go? Formally, the European Commission is going to send them to the needs economic stabilization of Ukraine and the implementation of structural reforms. The decision to provide assistance in the framework of the fourth program in a row was the result of a meeting of Petro Poroshenko with the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.
Interestingly, in recent years, the EU has been less and less willing to give loans to Ukraine. But it is obvious that political interests nevertheless defeated economic feasibility and the European Commission went on to provide the next tranche. True, the condition was set for the creation of an anti-corruption court in Ukraine. Of course, this is a purely formal requirement. Poroshenko can successfully create a similar structure from the most famous corrupt officials, reporting to Brussels on the successful completion of the task.
For Kiev, getting regular financial tranches from Europe is a matter of political survival. Ukraine is a bankrupt state, which, however, needs to maintain armed forces, a repressive apparatus, finance anti-Russian propaganda and satisfy the growing appetites of corrupt officials.
Petro Poroshenko constantly travels around Europe, engaged in “knocking out” next loans and tranches for all kinds of needs for “democratization” and “reform” of Ukraine. True, what these reforms are and what has been done over the past four years since the coup is not very clear. Perhaps the police services have somewhat transformed and armed the national guard, but what does this have to do with democracy and economic modernization? But Kiev has an iron argument - we are trying, we are implementing reforms in the most difficult conditions of “Russian aggression”, but we need more and more money.
It is interesting that the European Commission completely does not take into account the views of independent European experts who have long given bleak forecasts of economic development and political modernization of Ukraine. As the results of numerous studies show, over four years, the multi-billion dollar tranches of the European Union and the United States not only did not lead to genuine systemic changes in Ukrainian politics and economy, but simply disappeared into the bottomless pockets of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs. Apparently, another billion euros received from the European Commission will also go there.
Interestingly, in recent years, the EU has been less and less willing to give loans to Ukraine. But it is obvious that political interests nevertheless defeated economic feasibility and the European Commission went on to provide the next tranche. True, the condition was set for the creation of an anti-corruption court in Ukraine. Of course, this is a purely formal requirement. Poroshenko can successfully create a similar structure from the most famous corrupt officials, reporting to Brussels on the successful completion of the task.
For Kiev, getting regular financial tranches from Europe is a matter of political survival. Ukraine is a bankrupt state, which, however, needs to maintain armed forces, a repressive apparatus, finance anti-Russian propaganda and satisfy the growing appetites of corrupt officials.
Petro Poroshenko constantly travels around Europe, engaged in “knocking out” next loans and tranches for all kinds of needs for “democratization” and “reform” of Ukraine. True, what these reforms are and what has been done over the past four years since the coup is not very clear. Perhaps the police services have somewhat transformed and armed the national guard, but what does this have to do with democracy and economic modernization? But Kiev has an iron argument - we are trying, we are implementing reforms in the most difficult conditions of “Russian aggression”, but we need more and more money.
It is interesting that the European Commission completely does not take into account the views of independent European experts who have long given bleak forecasts of economic development and political modernization of Ukraine. As the results of numerous studies show, over four years, the multi-billion dollar tranches of the European Union and the United States not only did not lead to genuine systemic changes in Ukrainian politics and economy, but simply disappeared into the bottomless pockets of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs. Apparently, another billion euros received from the European Commission will also go there.
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