Russia - EU: The Difference

Furthermore, the President of the EU Commission went onto bring up the more delicate points in his summary speech. Instead of behaving like the diplomat he is supposed to be, he focussed on the issue of Polish meat. A suggestion for Jose Barroso: if he likes Polish meat so much, why doesn’t he eat some, and wash it down with Georgian wine and mineral water? Then he could return to his native Portugal, the world’s leading producer of corks.

And if, as he says, Estonian problems are “problems for all of Europe” what does the EU have to say about the blatant disregard for human rights in this country? Nothing. Predictably, nothing.

How to sum up the EU’s approach? In a word, bitterness. Bitterness because they encounter today a Russia which is strong, which is proud, which is defiant in standing up for its rights and its culture, in defending the propriety of is resources for their rightful owners – the Russian people. Bitterness, because the EU, like the USA and like NATO, the organisation to which so many of its members belong, are ruled by cliques of wannabe cold war warriors who perpetuate their self-importance by broadcasting remakes of the myth of Russia’s hostility.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY

PRAVDA.Ru