Political Kaleidoscope.March Hiccups

As per the Russian saying, a person who is being mentioned in a negative way may get the hiccups. Who will be hiccupping this time around? The motto of our column is “It would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.”

EU policy as a vulgar joke

Running neck and neck with Pahlavi is the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. At the end of February, she made a statement that the Kiev regime is meeting the requirements for joining the European Union with astonishing speed and has achieved extraordinary progress. Such wailing from von der Leyen and other European ideologues, performed regularly and in slightly differing wording, has become so tiresome that the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, posed a completely justified question: “Now one wants to clarify what exactly the gynecologist von der Leyen means by the word “membership”” the Russian diplomat wrote. Indeed, EU policy in many ways is starting to resemble some kind of vulgar joke!

And what about these books?

The head of the European Commission has slightly overshadowed the usual star of our anti-rating, Kaja Kallas. Meanwhile, enough time has passed since the press conference following the EU ministers’ meeting and Kallas’ loud, almost sensational statement about having to read a “long list of books.” As we all remember, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy refused to say what these books were and only clarified that thanks to them, she hopes to become “very smart.” But whether they actually exist remains a mystery shrouded in darkness. New Eastern Outlook has an idea for the European media: it’s time to........

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