The EU is responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, because of the lies about Kyiv's accession to the European Union, says a SOS Romania senator.
NEWS: Since 2012, the European Union has continuously promised and lied to Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia that they would join the EU, although according to the extremely strict community acquis, this is practically impossible (due to problematic relations with neighbors, the rule of law, economic issues, etc.).
The lies of Ursula and the current EU leadership regarding the accession to the European Union led to the War in Ukraine, because they really thought they would be accepted into the EU and NATO! Now we keep lying, without changing the rules of accession to the EU to cover countries like Albania, Turkey and the Western Balkan countries!
Ursula and the EU leadership must leave and take the Ciolacu2 government with them!
NARRATIVES: 1. The European Union lied when it promised Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova that they would be accepted into the European Union. 2. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was caused by the EU's lies about accession.
PURPOSE: To promote an anti-European discourse, to deepen anti-Ukrainian and by extension pro-Russian sentiments, to cause and amplify social tensions.
No one ever promised Ukraine the EU membership
WHY THE NARRATIVES ARE FALSE: In March 2007, the European Union and Ukraine signed a free trade agreement. Although this initiative brought the former Soviet republic closer to the EU diplomatically and economically, it did not contain specific plans for Ukraine to join the EU in the near future. Moreover, the final text of the agreement expressly excluded the prospect of accession, due to France's very firm position on this matter. Bilateral EU-Ukraine relations have indeed improved since 2012, and in November 2013, at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, Brussels intended to sign an Association Agreement with Kyiv. However, under enormous pressure from Russia, the then Ukrainian leadership (which was already pro-Russian) refused at the last minute to sign the Agreement, which led to the protests known as Euromaidan. The protests turned into a real revolution amid the authorities’ efforts to suppress them, including by using live ammunition against the demonstrators. The pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country and, shortly after that moment, Russia attacked Ukraine, invading and annexing the Crimean Peninsula and supporting with weapons and men the outbreak of a separatist insurgency in Donbas. In February 2014, after the Russian attack, the European Parliament adopted a resolution that recognized the right of Ukraine, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova to “apply for membership of the Union”, under certain conditions.
Even so, we cannot speak of a promise of accession made to Ukraine, given that, in March 2016, the then President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, stated that it would take at least 20-25 years for Ukraine to join the EU. On February 11, 2021, the European Parliament published a report on the state of implementation of the Association Agreement with the European Union by Ukraine. The document, which highlighted both Kyiv's successes and failures, established that the European Union was not ready to officially talk about the prospects of accession, but still recognized Ukraine's right to seek integration into the EU.
Also in 2021, Ukraine began preparations to formally apply for membership in 2024, with completion after 2030. On 23 June 2022, forced by the context of the large-scale Russian invasion, the European Council granted Ukraine candidate status for membership in the European Union. In 2023, a year and a half after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, during her State of the European Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen did indeed state that “the future of Ukraine is in our Union”, but even under these circumstances, the declaration cannot be considered an official promise. The actual negotiations between Kyiv and Brussels were launched on 21 June 2024, more than two years after the start of the Russian aggression.
One cannot help but notice that the cynical reference to Ukraine’s, Georgia’s and Moldova’s "problematic relations with neighbors" sounds like a sinister joke, given that the neighbors with whom the three states have problems are, in fact, Russia. In conclusion, no round of EU-Ukraine negotiations represented a promise of accession, and in no case was the respective diplomatic process the reason for the start of Moscow's invasion.
Moreover, although it invaded Ukraine after the pro-Europeans came to power, the Kremlin claims that the war was motivated by the danger of the neighboring country joining NATO, and even conveyed, through the voice of its spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, that "Ukraine has the sovereign right to decide whether it wants to join the European Union. We are talking about a process of economic integration. And here, of course, nobody can dictate anything to any country , and we will not do this."
The European Union, the enemy of peace and of Donald Trump
CONTEXT: To blame the EU for the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war is somewhat of a novelty, the European economic cooperation organization replacing NATO and the US in the pro-Russian propaganda’s narratives, after Washington's change of attitude in foreign policy matters, with the return to the White House of Donald Trump. Thus, the sovereignist discourse of Moscow origin, now disguised in an alignment with the new American doctrine, accuses Brussels of bellicose intentions, in complicity with London , in total contradiction with the "desire of Russia and the United States to make peace".
Senator Petrea is a consummate party switcher, having been a member of at least seven political parties in 12 years. In the 2012-2016 legislature, he was elected deputy on the lists of the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR), headed by the controversial Gabriel Oprea. In March 2016, he left the UNPR and joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD), from which he resigned shortly after. During his four years in office, according to the Chamber of Deputies website, he gave 3 (three) speeches and 11 (eleven) written political statements.
In 2016, he unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Brăila on behalf of the Romanian Social Party, and in the parliamentary elections for the Chamber of Deputies on behalf of Sebastian Ghiţă's United Romania Party. In 2020, he also unsuccessfully ran for both mayor of Brăila and a parliamentary seat on behalf of Pro-Romania, the party founded by Victor Ponta. The beginning of 2024 found senator Petrea in the Republican Party, allied in the local elections with Dan Voiculescu's Social Liberal Humanist Party, after breaking an alliance with AUR. After the local elections, he joined SOS Romania, Diana Şoşoacă's party, a party on whose lists he was elected senator, and from which he borrowed not only the conspiratorial and extremist discourse, but also the vocabulary and tone of his statements.
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