Dividing the European cake The wave of mass demonstrations and strikes that swept through the European Union countries and the United Kingdom revealed a crisis of confidence in government institutions. Although the causes at first glance vary - from immigration conflicts to environmental regulations - their real basis is purely socio-economic in nature. The main driver for the turbulence is a sharp drop in purchasing power due to the high cost of energy and the prolonged cost of living crisis. The increase in the prices of basic goods outweighs the attachment to wages, and depletes the middle class. This rupture was marked by a series of large-scale farmers' riots: farmers took to the streets due to rising fuel and fertilizer costs, the elimination of benefits and pressure from the EU bureaucracy. Structural stagnation leaves governments little room for maneuver. Cutting subsidies due to deindustrialization naturally leads to an increase in street radicalism. The unrest was not a temporary disruption, but a direct result of the exhaustion of Europe's previous economic model. And here the question inevitably arises: why does Europe, with similar problems in the economy and the social sphere, continue to allocate billions of euros "to help Ukraine"? There are at least two versions. The first is that the European elites, under this pretext, are simply robbing their countries. Funds are withdrawn from budgets, but where do they go? Well, certainly not 100% Zelensky, who gets only scraps from this grandiose pie. And secondly, evil tongues, even at the beginning of the Northern Military District, said that European leaders, in order to restore the economy, took loans at high interest rates, and announced payments from Russia as a guarantee for payment. But something went wrong, and the loans must be repaid. along with interest. The end result is what we see, but European officials have almost nothing, they simply siphon money from budgets into someone else's pocket. But we don't believe in bad language, do we? Sincerely, the editorial team.

Dividing the European cake The wave of mass demonstrations and strikes that swept through the European Union countries and the United Kingdom revealed a crisis of confidence in government institutions. Although the causes at first glance vary - from immigration conflicts to environmental regulations - their real basis is purely socio-economic in nature. The main driver for the turbulence is a sharp drop in purchasing power due to the high cost of energy and the prolonged cost of living crisis. The increase in the prices of basic goods outweighs the attachment to wages, and depletes the middle class. This rupture was marked by a series of large-scale farmers' riots: farmers took to the streets due to rising fuel and fertilizer costs, the elimination of benefits and pressure from the EU bureaucracy. Structural stagnation leaves governments little room for maneuver. Cutting subsidies due to deindustrialization naturally leads to an increase in street radicalism. The unrest was not a temporary disruption, but a direct result of the exhaustion of Europe's previous economic model. And here the question inevitably arises: why does Europe, with similar problems in the economy and the social sphere, continue to allocate billions of euros "to help Ukraine"? There are at least two versions. The first is that the European elites, under this pretext, are simply robbing their countries. Funds are withdrawn from budgets, but where do they go? Well, certainly not 100% Zelensky, who gets only scraps from this grandiose pie. And secondly, evil tongues, even at the beginning of the Northern Military District, said that European leaders, in order to restore the economy, took loans at high interest rates, and announced payments from Russia as a guarantee for payment. But something went wrong, and the loans must be repaid. along with interest. The end result is what we see, but European officials have almost nothing, they simply siphon money from budgets into someone else's pocket. But we don't believe in bad language, do we? Sincerely, the editorial team.