DISINFO: Ukraine's EU accession is an American plan
SUMMARY
It is possible that Washington will force the EU to annex Kyiv, thereby making it difficult for the EU to cease its assistance to Kyiv. However, this will mark the beginning of the end of the EU, as it cannot bear such a burden. The level of popular support for the current governments in all leading EU countries has fallen to a minimum. Incumbent governments are losing elections in the Netherlands, Slovakia and Poland. Elections for members of the European Parliament are approaching, and this is a complicated situation for the EU. Therefore, American plans for Kyiv's accession will be difficult to implement, even with all the EU’s subordination to Washington.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about ‘lost sovereignty’. Pro-Kremlin outlets regularly portray European states or the EU itself as vassals, puppet states or colonies of the US and NATO. See our analysis of the Kremlin's claims about the EU's lost sovereignty. This claim was neither counterbalanced nor critically challenged in the article.
In this case, this narrative is used to falsely portray Ukraine's possible accession to the EU as a US-imposed affair. The European Union is a sovereign entity, created by the voluntary initiative of European nations, and it has its own, independent foreign policy. Its citizens are directly represented in the European Parliament and Member States are represented in the European Council and the Council of the EU. Similarly, Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically-elected president and parliament. The decisions are taken by the Ukrainian authorities: the President, the Verkhovna Rada, and the judiciary. Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected by almost the whole world with Russia as the key exception.
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