"Since February 2022, we've actually spent more money buying fossil fuels from Russia in the EU than we've given in aid to Ukraine."

Promises: https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-set-plans-halt-russian-040545805.html

#sanctions #LoomingDefeat #EU #Europe #defeat #EU27 #KajaKallas #Kallas #Ukraine #EuropeUkraine #UkraineSupport #foreignPolicy #diplomacy #oilAndGas #energy #fossilFuels #UvDL

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#Ireland would probably unconditionally welcome the #UK rejoining the #EU, to remove Brexit's border problems.

But the rest of the #EU27 would be wise to require #politicalStability in the UK, i.e. a sustained, overwhelming cross-party political will in the UK to be part of the #EU. A narrow UK majority over the #Europhobes would just be a recipe for decades more drama.

Could the UK ever build a durable consensus for EU membership? Really?

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Post-#Brexit, British #Europhiles show no comprehension of how the #UK exasperated the #EU27. It wasn't just 5 years of Brexit drama using most of the #EU's political bandwidth, and UK repeatedly negotiating in bad faith; it was nearly 40 years of handbaggery & hooliganism.

Britain in the EU was a major headache for two generations.

UK rejoining would have to be weighed by the #EU27 as a tradeoff between the benefits of enlargement and the downsides of the UK's sustained disruption.

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"To proclaim the right of peoples to determine their own destiny in an international framework based on sovereignty, peace and cooperation among equals."

"Rearmament could reactivate the model tested during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Countries like Spain, Italy and Greece, with structurally high debt levels, will face serious difficulties in financing their war effort."

https://braveneweurope.com/hector-illueca-augusto-zamora-r-antonio-fernandez-manolo-monereo-how-to-save-europe

#diplomacy #narratives #EU #Europe #EU27 #EuropeUkraine #EuropeanPolicy #rearmament #ReArmEurope #sovereignty