AfD Kompakt, July 21, 2022.
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg’s
declaration that the Ukraine may be ready for the EU, although opposition
parties were forbidden in the country in which opposition politicians were
arrested or need go into exile and the opposition leader Viktor Medvedtschuk
initially was held illegally in house arrest for over six months and later was
imprisoned, is a new low point in the destruction of all previous legal standards
in regards the observance of accession conditions in the EU.
Schallenberg’s statement that the Ukraine “in regards
institutional stability as a guarantee for a democratic and legal order, the
protection of human rights, as well as the respect and defense of minorities
has on the whole progressed far”, can, in view of the massive human rights violations
in the country, only be categorized as bare cynicism.
If the EU certifies a corrupt and decayed state the likes of
the Ukraine as being compatible with the present composition of the EU, it
thereby makes out its own declaration of bankruptcy. In the Ukraine, the
erstwhile European values are being trampled under foot. Yet these are
obviously no longer the values for which the EU vouches. Representatives of the
EU should no longer presume to lay claim to European values.
The AfD delegation is for the strict maintenance of the
accession criteria in regards all countries desiring entrance. The EU now already
finds itself in a difficult crisis threatening its existence. It urgently
requires an internal consolidation instead of a hurried expansion including
additional countries in crisis.
[trans: tem]
