EU A TOOL IN AMERICA’S SHOWDOWN WITH RUSSIA – PISKORSKI
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12:03 16.03.2015(updated 14:13 16.03.2015)
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The EU is instrumental in Washington’s struggle with Russia and it
won’t be long before Europeans finally realize that this tactic simply
makes no sense, a prominent Polish political scientist believes.
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Anti-Russia Sanctions – Deputy FM The United States started using
the EU as a tool in its anti-Moscow campaign right after Crimea
reunited with Russia in March 2014, Mateusz Piskorski, a prominent
Polish political analyst and the head of the European Center for
Geopolitical Analysis, a Szczecin-based think-tank on international
relations and geopolitics, told RIA news agency.
A year ago Piskorski was in Crimea coordinating the work of a team
of international monitors overseeing the March 2014 referendum where
the Crimeans overwhelmingly voted to rejoin the Russian Federation.
“For the mere fact that I went to Crimea and monitored the voting
process there I was immediately vilified by the Polish media and
politicians for allegedly causing damage to my country and the West
as a whole… In just overnight I became an enemy of my country
only because I saw with my own eyes everything that was happening in
Crimea,” Piskorski said.
“The Crimeans simply used their right for self-determination which
US President Woodrow Wilson formulated almost a century ago,” he added.
“They did so in a situation where the Ukrainian state had stopped
fulfilling its fundamental obligations to its citizens and started
treating them as an enemy.”
Piskorski said the crisis in Ukraine led to unprecedented economic
sanctions against Russia and its people, sanctions which are equally
detrimental to the economic interests of both Russia and the European
Union.
“In 2014 these sanctions cost the European farmers about seven billion
euros in losses, and the closer a country was to Russia, the higher
the losses incurred,” Piskorski noted.
Finland, too, found itself on the losing end, along with Poland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Greece, Italy and Spain.
In Poland the sharp drop in agricultural production caused by the
sanctions led to mass protests by domestic producers.
“The original purpose of the sanctions, that is to bring pressure on
Russia, was never achieved, but the Americans are still working hard
to keep it up,” Mateusz Piskorski said.
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