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The conflict in Ukraine disrupts the post-Berlin Wall order in Europe: the tip of Scandinavian neutrality and equidistance, conflict recollections and discipline decisions within the Balkans and the acceleration of European Union enlargement in Japanese Europe. What affect and penalties the conflict has on the residents of a Europe which has modified its face maybe eternally.

We have been discussing it throughout a panel collectively organised with Debates on Europe on the Lectorinfabula worldwide cultural competition, which was held in Conversano (Southern Italy) finish of September. The audio system have been Kateryna Mishchenko, author and writer (Ukraine); Faruk Šehić, writer and poet (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Maarja Kangro, fiction and non-fiction author (Estonia) and Carl Henrik Fredriksson, programme Director of Debates on Europe (Sweden, Austria). It was moderated by Serbian-Italian journalist Marina Lalovic.

“Listening to Putin was like getting right into a time machine,” stated Faruk Šehić recounting the déjà vu he had within the days earlier than Russia‘s assault on Ukraine in February. The identical mechanisms that marked the conflict within the Balkans within the Nineteen Nineties are at play as we speak, he famous. And what occurred ought to have come as no shock; the speech held by Vladimir Putin simply earlier than the invasion was principally the identical as these by Radovan Karadžić again in 1992: Bosnia isn’t an actual nation and should not exist, Bosnian Muslims make up a pretend nation, and so forth. If Russia will win the conflict in Ukraine, open battle will instantly flare up in Bosnia”, Šehić warned. “And that conflict in Bosnia, is not going to keep solely there. It is like opening Pandora’s field.”

Whereas recognizing the solidarity proven by many international locations, Kateryna Mishchenko described a profound feeling of loneliness as one of many strongest traits of what it means to be a Ukrainian as we speak. Ukrainians are ultimately alone on this conflict: “They are getting weapons, they’re getting cash, they’re getting guarantees of European integration – however it’s they who should die, to sacrifice their lives.”