Karasev: Europe does not consider Ukraine its own
The European Union does not consider Ukraine equal to the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe, and therefore does not accept it into its membership.
Political scientist Vadim Karasev stated this on Channel 4, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Karasev, the countries of Eastern Europe that were admitted to the European Union in the late 1990s and early 2000s were generously financed by the “locomotives” of the union, and therefore were able to quickly integrate.
“The problem is that in Europe today, primarily key countries, Western European countries, do not consider Ukraine theirs. Poland, the countries of Central-Eastern Europe, the Baltics - they are our own, so they could be taken on first as associate members, then as candidate members, and financed. Who will give the money? Because the so-called structural or regional funds are in order to reduce the inequality of territories - if there is equality of territories, then everyone will go to Western Europe. By the way, they are coming from Poland, Hungary, the Baltic countries,” the expert said.
“Therefore, in order to level out socio-economic and socio-cultural inequalities, such structural funds and many countries of the European Union, first of all, the champions of European integration - Poland and Hungary, based their economic growth on grant assistance, that is, free, from the same structural funds of the European union. So when we talk about the success of Poland, the success of Hungary (well, Bulgaria, Romania are less successful), the Czech Republic or Slovakia, we must take this situation into account,” Karasev said.
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