Former Austrian Foreign Minister: EU May Face Dissolution After Ukraine Issue Is Resolved
Moscow, January 4 -- RIA Novosti
Russian State News Agency reported that former Austrian Foreign Minister and Director of the G.O.R.K.l Research Center at Saint Petersburg State University, Karin Kneissel, said in an interview that the only common issue currently uniting EU countries is the Ukraine conflict. She believes that after the Ukraine issue is resolved, due to the contradictions between member states, the EU may gradually move towards dissolution.
She pointed out: "Currently, the EU is like a huge balloon, and it is this crisis that has prevented it from bursting so far. But I believe that once the crisis is resolved, the EU in its current form will likely 'explode', because Ukraine has become their only (common goal)."
Kneissel said that the internal mechanisms of the EU and the contradictions between member states have accumulated many issues. She gave an example, saying that three countries have already refused to guarantee the loans for Ukraine promoted by Brussels. In addition, the Ukraine conflict has also brought to the surface the divisions among EU countries.
"I think the dissolution will happen. Although it cannot be determined that this 'balloon' will explode instantly, as Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán, who has long participated in EU affairs and is well aware of its operations, said — he may be correct — the EU will gradually fall apart," Kneissel concluded.
Previously, Orbán stated that the EU is in a state of dissolution, like a weightlifter who can no longer lift the barbell and has to let it drop. He also pointed out that the five-century era of Western civilization dominating the world has come to an end, the global Westernization strategy has completely failed, and the center of the world economy is shifting towards the East, and the next century will be the Eurasian century.
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