European Union flags outside the EU headquarters in Brussels. File photoMOSCOW, June 22The principle of «levelling» in the European Union may make developed countries think about leaving it, as they have to pay deductions to other countries, which people do not always perceive positively, RIA said News ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov. According to him, this principle is that «the rich countries of the European Union allocate certain funds from their budgets for equalization subsidies.»
"That is, almost all citizens of Germany, France , the Netherlands, and other countries, for the fact that they once joined some countries to the European Union, they pay significant amounts from their income for the so-called equalization subsidy", the ex-premier said.
According to him , the funds coming to the less developed EU countries in some states go to «infrastructure development, road construction, but somewhere they simply disappear into the bottomless pockets of officials, are stolen, spent inefficiently and do not realize its goals».
Ukraine is being driven to die for the status of a candidate member of ESAzarov believes that EU policy is not rational, since the means that theoretically can be directed to Ukraine, in his assessment, are unlikely to be effectively used in accordance with the stated goals. «I mean by equalization subsidies. It (the policy — ed.) is irrational, and sooner or later it leads to the fact that not only the UK will leave the European Union, as it did, but also a number of other countries will think about whether they should be there, «concluded he.
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