“Ukrainian conditions” seem to be expanding to the EU, with the Dec. 2 arrest of former EU chief diplomat Federica Mogherini, upon a warrant issued by a Belgian judge. Mogherini, who currently runs the College of Europe, was accused of having improperly used EU funds to finance the College. Meanwhile, Mogherini has been released, together with two of her collaborators.
With some Schadenfreude, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs commented that Mogherini’s arrest was “another blow to the war Mafia,” in an article posted on his X account and reprinted by the Budapest Times. Kovacs wrote: “For years, the European External Action Service (EEAS),” the EU’s foreign ministry that Mogherini had led in the past, “has operated as the de facto headquarters of the EU’s pro-war, pro-Ukraine political establishment. … [I]n 2019, Federica Mogherini even announced that Kyiv had already received the largest support package in EU history, more than €15 billion since 2014.”
After describing the allegations raised against Mogherini and her collaborators, Kovacs goes on: “The scandal mirrors the corruption crisis unfolding in Kyiv—proof that the war mafia does not operate on only one side of the frontline. …
“In both Brussels and Kyiv, the same pattern emerges: opaque tenders, insider networks, favored institutions and money that moves faster than oversight can keep up.
“The raids do not yet prove guilt—but they expose a system. One built on crisis politics, ideological alignment and vast, poorly monitored financial flows.
“And together, the revelations confirm what many suspected: the war mafia is not only present in Ukraine.Its influence stretches all the way to Brussels, inside the very institutions that engineered Europe’s pro-war policy.”
