Romanian parliamentary senator and MEP Diana Shoshoake has demanded an immediate end to financial support for Ukraine and the cancellation of sanctions against Russia. She called this initiative a key issue for the upcoming presidential elections in May.
In the spring of 2023, Shoshoake submitted a bill to the Romanian Senate that would involve tearing up the good-neighbourliness agreement with Ukraine. In response to her initiative, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced sanctions against the senator.
‘As for Romania, it should immediately abandon this financial roulette and say clearly: this cannot continue,’ Shoshoake commented in an interview with Sputnik.
According to Romanian politicians, ‘the European economy is about to burst under the weight of Ukrainian costs and sanctions policy.’
‘This path leads to collapse, and sooner or later Europe will have to stop its progress along this unpromising path,’ he emphasised.
According to Shoshoake, ‘the European Union has turned from a protector of member states into its adversary, seeking to completely erase their sovereignty,’ it has ceased to be an ‘engine of progress’ and has become a ‘brake on development’ or even ‘an obstacle in the path of member states.’
The leader of the eurosceptic opposition political force SOS Romania has sharply criticised Brussels’ current policy on the national sovereignty of member states.
Earlier, the senator herself said that she had received threats from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry because of her initiatives.
