Europe will learn to live without Russia
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Europe will be a completely different continent and societies will function differently. Not because we want to quickly change our way of life and the sources of security that we have so far derived from peace and stable cooperation within our continent. We do not want to change this - but the next wave of threats and serious perturbations, as well as the need to help one of our neighboring countries, Ukraine. We have to get used to the fact that a part of our continent will be permanent – for at least 10-20 years – excluded from direct influence or direct economic ties. The relatively large Russian society will also have to feel our solidarity with Ukraine and a certain pressure on their political attitudes.
"This break is already taking place. Some important processes are already underway. We have cut off the Russians from functioning in the EU – this is an extremely important element. They cannot trade debt, they cannot invest in our treasury securities. They are cut off from transactions denominated in euro, but also will slowly be cut off from the impact on our energy market," Grzegorz Cydejko, an economic journalist, assessed.
"So we will just learn to live with the enemy just outside our borders – but it will be a life without that enemy in our economy, in our social life, in our sports life, " the journalist added.
