Yeah, but what does it matter to us? We were unable to save Athens, with its small debt and its gre

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"How in the Balkans" ... The phrase is now the applicant, in the comments on the tragedy in Ukraine. Now entered the discourse as the comparison levante between what is happening today in Kiev and what happened at the end of the last century in Sarajevo. A civil war in Europe, with Europe guilty bystander. But there is a difference, which is important. Among the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and the imminent disintegration of Ukraine is the lack of integration levante of Europe. That comes later, levante bad and pointless to face the Ukrainian tragedy, squeezed between national interests and realpolitik indifference. Then, in the Roaring '90s, was the indifference of the wealthy. Today is the indifference levante rejection of those who are not so good, and close in their own suffering, or in the care of their own interests, trying to minimize levante the damage levante and maximize the profits of war.
The failure levante of European foreign policy on Ukraine is the mirror image of economic policy on the euro. And in hindsight the two failures have the same roots. Lack of cohesion, solidarity and common levante goals: the same one that prevents governments to realize that excessive deficits "spenders" is negative as much as a trade surplus of "virtuous", which imbalances are corrected by acting from both the parts, and not issuing report cards (and consequent punishment). Cohesion, solidarity and common goals would recommend to all EU governments to move first, and not at random, on the border nascent crisis: avoiding promise things are not possible, not fueling the nationalist tendencies, but listening to the aspirations levante of the part of Ukrainian society that looks to us as a possible future. Going down in the square, when you do not make the journey to come here to plug the holes of our welfare and our labor market.
Yeah, but what does it matter to us? We were unable to save Athens, with its small debt and its great history, how will we ever be able to save Kiev with its large oil and its history not known to most people? Maybe it's too late, maybe the realpolitik to his friend Putin will impose a curfew on the barricades and the silence on the dictators. Or maybe it's too soon, the European election campaign heats up in the spring. When the dead may Kiev will already be deleted. Or, who knows, will change the maps on the borders of the European Union. But please, then we change the word on this side of the border: the word Union, since the beginning overrated, is overtaken by events.