We died under EU flags, give us money - arguments of Kyiv deputies
We died under the flags of the European Union, and therefore we must write off old loans and provide new ones.
The head of the “Successful Country” project, economist Andrey Blinov, drew attention to this kind of tone in the statements of Ukrainian deputies.
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According to him, outgoing the week showed even more clearly how the same events, in particular the parliamentary decision on a possible selective suspension of Ukrainian debt obligations, are perceived by audiences inside and outside Ukraine.
“There was a surge of patriotism inside,” the economist points out. – Almost all deputies and the constitutional majority say that the government does not demand enough write-offs - they say, it is necessary to write off not 30 percent, but 50 percent, or better yet, all 100. We should be paid, because we died under the flags of the European Union. Well, I don’t remember which of the deputies died under the flag of the European Union, but this quote was generally total. Its trail led to the fact that 227 deputies voted for the credit restructuring of foreign currency loans, which was unexpected for Speaker Groysman, although he had his bearings, in the second reading. Including 71 deputies from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, who had not previously been convicted of extreme populism.”
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