Mini-Research on UA-EU Economy
Just
the first two proofs that EU countries,
including Switzerland, are the main beneficiaries of the EuroMaidan
and resulting collapse of Ukrainian economy.
Interview
with Vladimir Fesenko, Head of the Ukrainian Center for Applied
Political Researches "Penta», on 23.08.2019:
"Now
we (Ukraine) are more dependent on the support of international
partners ...
Today
we have became more dependent on the West than in the early 90s. But
this is due to our course for European integration we took in the
last 15 years. As we seek membership in the European Union, we must
make certain concessions and adapt to its standards. And the signed
Association
Agreement with the EU
again means our certain dependence.
In
fact, in 2012-2013, Ukraine had to choose between two types of
dependence: Dependence on the European Union, or dependence on Russia
within the Eurasian Union. We chose dependence on the EU."
"...
Choosing dependence on a large geopolitical and geo-economic entity,
we chose dependence on a more civilized entity, which has more
distinct legal and democratic rules". - Considering
my own personal experience of dealing with Swiss SEM and Federal
Court with their artificial complicating the whole procedure and
obvious abusing Swiss and international legislation causes me more
and more doubts about the "distinct
legal and democratic rules".
"Editorial
comment:
Publishing
this interview with the venerable Ukrainian political scientist as
usual without notes and withdrawals, we nevertheless would like to
note certain important points which Vladimir Fesenko quite skillfully
bypasses:
1.
So far, "independence from Russia" has turned into an
economic COLLAPSE
for
Ukraine:
the total debt of Ukraine has grown, and currently is more than 70
percent of the country's GDP, the average wage has decreased in
relation to 2013 (before Maidan) and became the lowest in Europe, and
Ukraine itself is officially recognized by European financial
institutions as the poorest
in Europe.
One of the main reasons for this is the breaking of economic ties
with Russia, that is, the alleged independence from Russia Fesenko
speaks about."
21.11.2018
"The
EuroMaidan, which started on November 21, 2013, was held under the
slogan "We want to Europe!". However, after its victory,
almost five years have passed, but European standards of living have
not come to the country. More amazing, Ukrainians pay much more for
gas than residents of the European Union!"
"According
to the state statistics service, the main exporters of natural gas to
Ukraine were companies from Switzerland,
Germany and Poland."
Ukraine
in 2018 pays for Russian gas by 23% more than Europe. In fact,
Ukraine has overpaid $493 million for natural gas since the beginning
of the year.
"However,
... Ukrainian experts have long proved that Kiev physically can not
receive any gas, excepting Russian one. This is confirmed by results
of analysis of composition of the "reverse" gas that
Ukraine receives from the EU. So Ukraine
actually receives the same Russian gas, but buys it not directly from
Gazprom. Instead, it buys it through intermediaries who sell gas at a
discount. The case involves /artificial/ companies-"gaskets"
from Switzerland, Germany and Poland."
"Lost
Billions
The
average cost of gas for Ukraine over the past nine months since the
beginning of the year, according to the state statistics service of
the country, amounted to about $289 per 1 thousand cubic meters.
Russian gas in Europe in the same period was sold much cheaper.
"At
the end of nine months, according to preliminary results, 148.24
billion cubic meters of gas from Russia was delivered to foreign
countries under Gazprom export contracts, its average price was about
$235 per 1 thousand cubic meters, "Alexander Medvedev, Deputy
Chairman of the Gazprom management Board, said in October.
According
to the estimates of the chief commercial Director of the Ukrainian
company "Naftogaz" Yuriy Vitrenko, the level of overpayment
for gas in some periods was even higher and reached 34%
— as, for example, in March 2017.
Ukraine
stopped buying gas from Russia in November 2015. According to the
state statistics service of the country, over the next two years,
about $5.4 billion was spent on the purchase of natural gas in
Europe.
It
turns out that during these two years, Ukraine has overpaid about a
billion dollars,
if the price of imported gas for Ukraine was only 20% higher than the
cost of Russian gas in the EU.
In
General, since the refusal to purchase Russian gas from Gazprom and
taking into account various overpayments, Kiev's losses can be
estimated at about $1.5 billion.
For
the first nine months of 2018, Ukraine imported 7,852 billion cubic
meters of gas for a total of $2.275 billion. the Corresponding data
was published by the Ukraininan state statistics service on Monday,
November 19."
See
also how it all began at:
"If
Ukraine had not severed relations with Russia after its EuroMaidan
victory in 2014, it could buy Russian gas at a much better price, as
Europe does to this day.
Meanwhile,
Ukraine's losses from the EuroMaidan are much higher than the $1.5
billion the country overpaid for gas.
The
EU markets did not compensate Ukraine for its fallen trade with
Russia. Industrial enterprises that worked in cooperation with
Russia, such as "Yuzhmash" and "Motor Sich", have
not received new markets to replace the Russian ones, and now are
forced to barely survive. The auto industry COLLAPSED, the chemical
industry is on its last legs, entrepreneurs from the agricultural
sector explain that the EU's quotas for agricultural products end
during the first weeks of January. Since then Ukrainians have to
trade chicken meat and other products at unprofitable high prices".
"The
US Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Pyatt has promised to make Ukraine
an agricultural superpower, but so far everything that is going on is
only the intention of selling Ukrainian lands to foreigners, while
local residents will work for foreign agricultural corporations, at
best, as a cheap labor."
"The
population of Ukriane is extremely poor: According to official data
of the UN and other international institutions, 60%
of Ukrainians live below the poverty line. At the same time, about a
third are starving. Besides, Ukraine is in first place in Europe in
terms of corruption".
"The
conclusion is evident — the true winner of the EuroMaidan are not
people of Ukraine, but rather the European Union itself, which earns
hundreds of millions on the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine and
receives low-paid European-born migrants' labor."-
(https://ukraina.ru/exclusive/20181121/1021816499.html)
***
I
was sincerely protesting against that financial robbery of Ukraine
by financial-political elite, despite our forces were obviously not
equal. That is how I ultimately appeared in Switzerland without any
money. Today Swiss Federal Court demands from me the ABSOLUTELY
IMPOSSIBLE in my situation $750 just for proving my life story.
Instead, I am doing it through my websites right now, - FOR FREE!
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