Guy Verhofstadt – who served as the Belgian prime minister from 1999 to 2008 and has been an MEP since 2009 – claimed that the effect of the EU’s nine sanctions packages on Moscow “is less than 0” Opinion | MartinRJay
It’s a widely held belief by many Eurosceptic commentators that the EU doesn’t do ‘mea culpa’. But in fact, this is not the case at all. It is rare that the 27-member bloc publicly admits its mistakes. So what is behind the recent astonishing admission that the EU got it wrong over Russian sanctions?
Verhofstadt also pointed out that most EU member states, including Germany, France, Italy, and Poland, had actually increased imports from Russia. In total, only seven EU members have bought less from the country. But the admission needs to be put into context as this will give observers an understanding of what to expect from EU leaders in the coming months. A clash is almost inevitable between the EU and the US as European countries’ economies plummet further due to Biden’s new tax breaks on businesses there which have a knock-on effect on European firms struggling to stay in the marketplace.
In fact, the killing fields of Ukraine are less and less relevant to the bigger picture of the war, which is what Russia is doing with EU countries and around the world. BRICS’s new members are lining up to join the bloc, which is said to be a Russian-led organisation. More and more ‘global south countries’ are aligning themselves with Russia each week and there doesn’t seem to be any strong initiative for Russia to undo all these spoils of war.
Remarkably, for days on the UK’s Daily Mail website, there remained a story of Putin wanting to end the war in Ukraine, reaching out to the West for talks. It also keeps pumping out stories of Putin’s ill health, suggesting that time is not on Russia’s side. So, obliterating any opposing narrative was more of a self-preservation stunt which the EU had wanted to do for years but was afraid to due to the humiliation that would have followed.
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