[cripplecreek]

From May and not at all helpful.

Van Rompuy: If The Public Doesn't Want EU Expansion, 'We Do It Anyway'

In a crass and ill-timed intervention, the unelected president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy has warned Vladimir Putin that the EU intends ultimately to control every country on the western flank of Russia.

In an interview with De Standaard newspaper, Van Rompuy speaks about his “dreams” that all the Balkan states will join the EU. He calls it an “inspiring thought” that in the long term “the whole of European territory outside Russia” will be tied in some way to the EU.

He admits he does not know if there is public support for such a move, “But we do it anyway.”

[crazycat]

Well spotted.

The EU with US help destabilised the Ukraine and now we see the consequences.

Ukraine is a democratic mess, the Western half with the largest population wants to join the west, but the Eastern half does not, hence the problem....The best solution would be to split it in half.

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Good post, explains the media’s coordinated headlines here and in UK