... similar battle cry, emanating from the various countries of the EU and it is not looking good. Something has, somewhere, somehow, gone radically wrong with the original concept of the idea’s and treaties laid down, by the founding fathers of the European Union – before and since the tearing down of the infamous Berlin Wall. Europe is under attack. And, it is not from Russia The whole concept of the EU and its original mandates are now coming under threat of attack, but not from some despised,...
- Опубликовано:
- 20.10.2015 20:56:00
... Australia, to build a united response to Russia’s strategy of militarized destabilization in Ukraine. This achievement was possible even as the interpretation of the origins of the crisis in Ukraine and conclusions to draw from it differed between the European Union and the United States but even more so among Europeans. For many of them, Europe should neither accept Russia’s fait accompli policy in Ukraine nor fully isolate itself from Russia.
• Transatlantic sanctions imposed a real ...
- Опубликовано:
- 12.10.2015 00:19:00
The current situation in Ukraine is mostly considered as a simply conflict between pro-Russian insurgency and the Ukrainian government. But the truth has become far more complex and it is now a crucial security issue for EU and Russian governance.
The employment of paramilitary volunteer battalions by Poroshenko’s government to fight pro-Russian separatists in eastern regions is attracting a large number of jihadists in Europe. Such jihadi fighters mainly comes from the Caucasus and from...
- Опубликовано:
- 09.10.2015 12:00:00
Putin is one of the favorite topics in the Western media. While in office, the Russian president has been put under the microscope from different angles. Many attempts at creating his psychological portrait and discovering his identity have been undertaken in order to understand what is to be expected from Putin’s Russia. The most popular and obvious detail is Putin’s past as a KGB officer. It can go like this: “In the mind of Putin, a former KGB officer, a country that was once...
- Опубликовано:
- 07.10.2015 15:45:00
... significant. This consideration indicates that, generally speaking, the fear of a possible retaliation and potential economic losses had prevented the EU leaders from adopting tougher measures.
Another fundamental issue concerns the nature of the European Union itself. Each of the EU’s twenty-eight member states protects and pursues different goals according to their own national interests. In addition, every state has a different degree of economic interdependence with Russia.
Considering ...
- Опубликовано:
- 02.09.2015 16:12:00
That many in the EU countries don’t support the sanctions’ escalation with Russia should not come as a surprise. Besides their evident lack of effectiveness in changing Russia’s behavior, economic backlashes are convincing people that they might not be the most appropriate instrument, especially under the light of the difficult economic conjuncture affecting Europe.
This is particularly true for Italy, where all the opposition parties –no matter from which side of the political...
- Опубликовано:
- 28.08.2015 11:56:00
On August 4 last year, Vladimir Putin responded to the latest round of sanctions levied against his regime by imposing a ban on the import of food products from the EU, the US, and their supporters. The disruption of commerce was worth approximately $12 billion to the Russian economy, with secondary effects in the targeted countries, particularly the EU, causing unemployment within the agricultural sector, a slump in the price of the banned foods in domestic markets, and great losses for producers...
- Опубликовано:
- 26.08.2015 18:09:00
Author: Daria Basova, student in the World Politics Department, MGIMO University. On July 7, Great Britain submitted a draft resolution on Srebrenica to the UN Security Council, seeking to have the July 1995 killing of Muslim population by the Serb army commanded by Ratko Mladic qualified as genocide. Russia vetoed the resolution, a move welcomed in Serbia and the Republic Srpska and the utterly opposite response in the West, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The resultant heated wrangling seems a manifestation...
- Опубликовано:
- 31.07.2015 11:31:00
...
Implications of this deal abound, but they are largely negative. Aside from keeping Greece in the Eurozone for now, this agreement provides security to neither Athens or to Brussels. Regardless of the success or failure of the current bailout agreement, the European Union’s integration project will become more dysfunctional while there are few levers to effect change. The result is a lopsided monetary union with no economic parity among members and a strict political hierarchy—inevitably Greece ...
- Опубликовано:
- 15.07.2015 17:39:00
via Leksika
Reinforcing Economic Ties
After last weekend’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), economic activity by Western companies in Russia appears to have been reinforced. Among the attendees of the event, major European and American companies’ strong presence provides insight into the divergence of political and economic perceptions as the standoff between Russia and the West continues. Unlike the 2014 forum, where U.S. and European governments exerted strong pressure...
- Опубликовано:
- 26.06.2015 16:07:00
Serbia was placed in a difficult position after member countries of the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia. The sanctions were imposed as the retribution for Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its alleged participation in Ukrainian crisis. These sanctions, however, are not hurting only Russia’s economy,...
- Опубликовано:
- 25.06.2015 20:11:00
It was widely speculated that the exclusion of Russia from leading industrial countries would result into an almost unresolved conflict between Russia and NATO nations. The recent G-7 Summit, if seen in the perspective of bilateral economic and strategic developments between Russia and China, was expected to become instrumental for mounting extra-ordinary pressure on Russia. It was widely believed that this meeting was due to re-initiate the process of bi-polarizing world. President Vladimir Putin...
- Опубликовано:
- 10.06.2015 17:04:00
In recent months, Russian officials have repeatedly emphasized Russian sovereignty and autonomy. Russia indeed is not a part to an integration project or a military alliance that dismantle its bundle of sovereign rights. There are no foreign troops on the Russian territory and no-one dictates economic policy to Moscow. Vladimir Putin has recently portrayed the U.S. as "patrons and sponsors" of European nations and Bulgaria as a country that, sadly, “is deprived of the possibility...
- Опубликовано:
- 07.05.2015 16:53:00
Ukraine's Increasing Polarization and the Western Challenge, by Eugene Chausovsky 11 March 2014 http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/ukraines-increasing-polarization-and-western-challenge#axzz38mfJD9Bl
George Friedman, The United States Has Unfinished Business in Ukraine and Iraq 24 June, 2014 http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/united-states-has-unfinished-business-ukraine-and-iraq#axzz38mfJD9Bl
Friedman and Chausovsky, along with many others, force the Ukrainian crisis excessively into a geopolitical...
- Опубликовано:
- 30.01.2015 17:55:00
Kvashnin Yuri (Ph.D in History)
(Head, European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN, RIAC Expert)
Today the Russian-Greek economic relations are affected by a triple crisis: the ongoing crisis in Greece, the crisis in Russian–EU relations and Russia's economic hardships.
As for ...
- Опубликовано:
- 03.01.2015 01:06:00
The Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) invited experts for a discussion “Opportunities and Challenges Within the Space of Eurasian Economic Integration” on December 4, 2014.
The coming 2015 will confirm an existence of a new geopolitical player[1] on post-Soviet continent. The 3+1 Eurasian union – [Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus + Armenia] – was brought into existence after the signing and ratification of the Agreement on...
- Опубликовано:
- 20.12.2014 01:56:00
Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor based in Seattle, USA)
Ever since April, and a much publicized re-entry in the capital markets to secure a loan, the Greek PM Mr. Samaras has taken no breaks from advertising his government's supposed "success" in leading Greece "out of her crisis." With the exception of Mr. Samaras's narrow circle of advisers, everyone knows that this claim is bogus. In October, Mr. Samaras took another bold, but utterly inane, step in...
- Опубликовано:
- 08.12.2014 18:10:00
... replace the old partner and do even more.
TTIP Yes, TTIP No
On this subject the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP is a trade agreement proposal currently under negotiation, which aims to create an area of free trade between the European Union and the United States. In June 2013, the EU gave directives to its delegations to handle the talks6, but the progress was slow and during the first quarter of 2014 there was still much more to be done7. Coincidentally, this is the same ...
- Опубликовано:
- 20.10.2014 23:25:00
Winter is approaching and the European Union, following the lead of the U.S.A., is firmly persisting in its policy of sanctions against the Russian Federation. Yet the prospect of closing down of Gazprom's pipelines, which cover about 30% of the gas requirements of the European area,...
- Опубликовано:
- 01.10.2014 17:37:00
... looking at the domestic institutional designs of Russia, Belarus und Kazakhstan one can come to conclusion that democracy is not what the leaders of these three states concerned with. There is therefore no hope that EAU would be any more democratic than European Union.
There is, however, one thing worth an experiment called deliberative democracy. Deliberation is commonly referred to as "a form of government in which free and equal citizens (and their representatives), justify decisions in a ...
- Опубликовано:
- 16.09.2014 13:51:00
