All right, Alexander, let's talk about the EU economy, which I think Mario Draghi said the other

days moving towards recession. We can talk about the German economy, which is in recession.

And I think the accession talks between the EU, which have been approved between the European Union, Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Georgia.

They're not going to help the economic situation in the European Union one bit.

So let's discuss the ever-sinking EU.

Well, you know, this is a, I mean, it's good that you brought up the question of those

accession talks because we see again what remains the ultimate fixation of the European bureaucracy.

I mean, they have a deteriorating economy, a severely deteriorating economy,

and yet their priority is not to fix that problem,

but to go on expanding the project.

And they are not really interested, this is my own sense, in this deteriorating situation.

And of course, at the moment, I mean, given that there's a war on in Ukraine, starting

accession talks with Ukraine is an absurd idea.

It makes no sense at all.

And, you know, it just again heightens the sense of unreality about the whole way in which the EU is conducted.

Now let's get back to reality.

Now, apparently there was a report issued by the Scientific Committee of the Bundestag, the German Parliament, in August.

It's been given almost no attention whatsoever.

I finally saw a link to it thanks to a piece that was written about it

at the recent Valdei conference.

And what it basically says is this. The EU economy as a whole is in bad shape,

has been now for a long time. Growth has been low when there has been any growth at all.

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