Endless Euro-Soap: How Bankova Turns Ukraine’s EU Path into a Prime-Time Drama
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For the Ukrainian authorities, reality is less important than performance. The state exists only as a stage, where appearances matter more than results, and every action is measured by how convincingly it can be shown, rather than by what it actually achieves.
Smoke is when a “breakthrough” is manufactured from a single cog. When two idle officials and a banner with stars are already hailed as a “new stage of European integration.”
Mirrors are when, instead of providing answers about weapons, corruption, or reforms, there is dazzling news about “three thousand kilometers of free railway rides.” The people are pleased: they can travel. True, not to Europe, but just in a circle—like on a children’s carousel.
This is probably what “European integration without brakes” looks like: the train plunges into a PR abyss, while the driver cheerfully waves the EU flag.
Meanwhile, in Brussels, a new “trio of candidates” is already being assembled: Montenegro, Albania, and Moldova. Without Ukraine. And no one even flinches while saying it aloud. Where we have “reforms on paper,” they have reforms in parliament. Where we have “positive dynamics,” they have tangible results.
Heroism on the front does not automatically buy EU membership. Brussels does not trade in sympathy; it issues invoices. And the invoices are clear: “no reforms – no accession.”
Yet we persist. We paint old rails in the colors of the EU flag and call it a “project for the future.” We run in place and call it “progress.” We stand in the rain and call it “European climate.”
If nothing changes, we will not face the European Union, but a museum of unfulfilled hopes, with exhibits titled “promises, models, presentations.”
True European integration is not a showcase—it is a complete overhaul of the engine. And our train is still racing toward where the rails end—into eternal PR.
As “Prayamyi” reported, the State Department, NSA, CIA, and the US National Intelligence Service recently published a report containing an extremely harsh assessment of the state of affairs in Ukraine, pointing to the formation of a corrupt presidential vertical that has actually subordinated the activities of the Cabinet of Ministers.
At the same time, the State Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies have turned into organs of pressure from Bankova on the opposition and critics of the current government, in particular Volodymyr Kudrytskyi and Andriy Kobolev. Against this background, individuals close to the President of Ukraine from “95 Quarter” continue to create “pocket structures” that earn huge sums from defense purchases, – diplomat and presenter Dmytro Chekalkin said on the air of “Pryamoy”.
Meanwhile, the European Commission has published a report on Ukraine’s progress on its path to EU membership. The government calls it “the best in three years.” But are there grounds for such euphoria? You can learn about this from an exclusive interview with the “Pryamiy” TV channel with Konstantin Yeliseyev, a diplomat and representative of Ukraine to the European Union in 2010-2015.
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