Yevgeniy Bilonozhko “Intermarium vs. The Three Seas Initiative: Reality and Prospects”

Yevgeniy Bilonozhko, Chief Editor of PoloNews Portal, PhD in Philosophy, takes on the evermore urgent topic of Ukraine’s relation to The Three Seas Initiative within the bloc of the same title. It is obvious that the Adriatic-Baltic-Black Sea Group, the demo version of the Three Seas Initiative, cannot do without Ukraine and the full-scale entrance to the Black Sea. Moreover, although the Three Seas Initiative positions itself as an economic project, it goes without saying that no regional unity is conceivable without Ukraine as a bulwark against Russian aggression. Yet Yevgeniy Bilonozhko fairly draws attention to the multiple conceptions of the Intermarium, including the conflict between the EU- (Germany-) oriented CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) and the classic Intermarium born in the former century out of the Eastern European peoples’ national liberation struggle: from the Russian Empire, later, the Bolsheviks, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Germany. As a person well-familiar with t