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The EU and other European countries were greatly affected by the [[European migrant crisis]] resulting from lax immigration standards due to EU policies.

The EU and other European countries were greatly affected by the [[European migrant crisis]] resulting from lax immigration standards due to EU policies.

===Russia-Ukraine war===

===NATO war in Ukraine===

{{See also|Russia-Ukraine war|Great Reset}}

{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine|Great Reset}}

[[File:Europe-in-2022 (1).jpg|left|300px|thumb|Europe in 2022.]]

[[File:Europe-in-2022 (1).jpg|left|300px|thumb|Europe in 2022.]]

For the first time in its history, the European Commission financed the purchase and transport of weapons.  The package cost 450 million euros ($502m) to be delivered to the Kyiv regime.<ref>https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/russia-ukraine-crisis-us-tells-nationals-to-consider-leaving-russia-immediately/cid/1853839</ref>  The European Commission also closed its airspace to Russian commercial airflight.

For the first time in its history, the European Commission financed the purchase and transport of weapons.  The package cost 450 million euros ($502m) to be delivered to the [[Kyiv regime]].<ref>https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/russia-ukraine-crisis-us-tells-nationals-to-consider-leaving-russia-immediately/cid/1853839</ref>  The European Commission also closed its airspace to Russian commercial airflight.

On March 11, 2022, EU external minister [[Josep Borrell]] back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war,  

On March 11, 2022, EU external minister [[Josep Borrell]] back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war,  

Borrell complained that he was less popular in Western media than Russian foreign minister [[Sergei Lavrov]] saying, “Lavrov goes to [[Africa]] and tries to persuade the Africans that sanctions are to blame for all that’s happening… and the whole of the Western media repeats it.  I go to Africa to say the opposite, that sanctions have nothing to do with it, and nobody picks it up.”<ref>https://thepressunited.com/updates/eus-borrell-has-no-chance-against-lavrov-moscow/</ref>

Borrell complained that he was less popular in Western media than Russian foreign minister [[Sergei Lavrov]] saying, “Lavrov goes to [[Africa]] and tries to persuade the Africans that sanctions are to blame for all that’s happening… and the whole of the Western media repeats it.  I go to Africa to say the opposite, that sanctions have nothing to do with it, and nobody picks it up.”<ref>https://thepressunited.com/updates/eus-borrell-has-no-chance-against-lavrov-moscow/</ref>

After the European Union sanctions against Russia were passed, which had a boomerang effect on European economies and destroying living standards, by July 2022 the heads of government in Italy, Bulgaria, Estonia and the United Kingdom were removed.

After the European Union passed its [[Russian sanctions]], which had a boomerang effect on European economies and destroyed living standards of the European peoples, by Summer 2022 [[regime change]] was forced on the heads of government in Italy, Bulgaria, Estonia, the United Kingdom and Sweden.

 

Former President of [[France]] [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] criticized the European Commission and its President Ursula von der Leyen in an interview with ''Le Journal du Dimanche'' on October 23, 2022.  The issues of [[foreign policy]] and arms supplies to [[Ukraine]] go beyond the mandate of the European Commission, which is primarily a political organization. "I do not understand under what article of the European agreements European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen can justify her competence in terms of arms procurement and [[foreign policy]]." The EU must be careful not to foment military escalation in Ukraine, Sarkozy said.  "The only thing that the Europeans are hearing today is the allocation of additional billions for the purchase of weapons. More weapons, more deaths, more war! We are hostages of miscalculations, exaltation, irritation and thoughtless actions. We are balancing on the edge of a volcano," Sarkozy said.<ref>https://www-lejdd-fr.translate.goog/Politique/exclusif-retraites-ukraine-congres-lr-nicolas-sarkozy-sort-de-son-silence-et-livre-ses-analyses-au-jdd-4142556?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US</ref>

==Candidates for membership==

==Candidates for membership==