"Russia rejoices as EU does away with its only weapon"

The EU has rendered inefficient its only foreign policy weapon - enlargement, much to the joy of Russia, Austrian daily Presse writes on Thursday.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 11.10.2012.

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VIENNA The EU has rendered inefficient its only foreign policy weapon - enlargement, much to the joy of Russia, Austrian daily Presse writes on Thursday. The article, published a day after the organization presented its latest report on enlargement strategy, asserts that the EU could "repeat its biggest mistake since 2007, when Romania and Bulgaria, although not ready, were allowed to join": "Russia rejoices as EU does away with its only weapon" "Soon after, there was a decrease in the reform effort, which melted like a snowball in a deep fryer. Even the simplest of democratic rules are today being violated in Romania". The daily made the note in reference to the case of Croatia, to say that the country, which is set to join the EU next year, faces its most important problem in the shape of accusations that it is not sufficiently politically mature to solve a dispute with Slovenia over a Yugoslav-era bank. The newspaper notes that "if the most advanced country in the Balkans" was unable to solve an issue related to the capital flow, that situation put a question mark over the possibility of admission of others from the region, and listed them as "Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, or Turkey and Kosovo". All this, according to the Austrian newspaper, is "tragic", considering that it means the EU is destroying its own, and sole effective foreign policy weapon: "The possibility of membership alone drove the post-Soviet societies to reforms. What sort of offer can Brussels make to Ukraine, Belarus, or Moldavia? None. Europe does not know what to do with these undeniably European countries." The article concludes that this could only make officials in the Kremlin rejoice, since they are, the daily believes, "working on restoring the Soviet Union through the Euro-Asian Union". Tanjug

"Russia rejoices as EU does away with its only weapon"

"Soon after, there was a decrease in the reform effort, which melted like a snowball in a deep fryer. Even the simplest of democratic rules are today being violated in Romania".

The daily made the note in reference to the case of Croatia, to say that the country, which is set to join the EU next year, faces its most important problem in the shape of accusations that it is not sufficiently politically mature to solve a dispute with Slovenia over a Yugoslav-era bank.

The newspaper notes that "if the most advanced country in the Balkans" was unable to solve an issue related to the capital flow, that situation put a question mark over the possibility of admission of others from the region, and listed them as "Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, or Turkey and Kosovo".

All this, according to the Austrian newspaper, is "tragic", considering that it means the EU is destroying its own, and sole effective foreign policy weapon:

"The possibility of membership alone drove the post-Soviet societies to reforms. What sort of offer can Brussels make to Ukraine, Belarus, or Moldavia? None. Europe does not know what to do with these undeniably European countries."

The article concludes that this could only make officials in the Kremlin rejoice, since they are, the daily believes, "working on restoring the Soviet Union through the Euro-Asian Union".

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