... Policy and Analysis Department, and Kristian Rasmussen, Senior Advisor, European Neighborhood Policy Department.
Danish diplomats were informed about Council's activity in European security and cooperation field as well as about the prospects in the Russia-NATO and Russia-EU relations. The parties exchanged their opinions on regional conflicts settlement as well as the possible dynamics of regional and world politics development against the background of the recent political changes in the US and ...
... prolonged its sanctions against Russia, and all talk of increasing the flexibility of the sanctions mechanism turned out to be futile. At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum held in June, President Vladimir Putin suggested partial restoration of Russia’s cooperation with the European Union to the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker.
However, there has yet to be a response to this offer. The European Union did present its five-part platform for further cooperation with Russia (dubbed the “Five Principles ...
On December 19, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with Jean-Claude Knebeler, the Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Russian Federation.
The Luxembourgian diplomat was informed about the RIAC work on the Russia-EU cooperation issues.
The parties discussed the problems of European security, Russia's and the West's mutual perceptions as well as possible areas for cooperation ...
On December 14 in Berlin Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and German Council on Foreign Relations (
DGAP
) held a seminar dedicated to opportunities for Russia-EU energy cooperation.
The seminar was opened by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General and Stefan Meister,...
On December 13-14, ECFR (European Council of Foreign Relations) Foreign Policy Strategy Group met in Berlin within the framework of European Council's long-term project "
Rethinking Europe
".
The meeting was organized by
Mercator Stiftung,
gathering about 30 experts, EU policymakers, diplomats and journalists from Europe and the US. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, gave a speech.
On December 10, London School of Economics under the auspices of Dahrendorf Forum held an international seminar "Quo Vadis Global actors? US, EU, Russia between Liberal Order and Neorealism".
The seminar was attended by experts in theory of international relations from Great Britain, other European countries and the United States.
Russia was represented by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director ...
On November 28 the Institute of Europe hosted the Third Annual International Conference «In Search of Joint Responses to Threats and Challenges to European Security».
The conference brought together leading Russian and foreign experts in European security issues to discuss the key European and Euro-Atlantic institutions’ (EU, OSCE, NATO) evolution of strategies, possibilities for Russian and Western rapprochement, external challenges, and untraditional ...
... force will require an approval from all the countries involved, which doesn’t ensure its acceptance by Poland or Baltic states who seem resentful towards the «North Stream-2» pipeline construction or towards the gradual decline of Russian supplies via Baltic sea ports.
The EU investigation led by the European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager, was based on the belief that Gazprom broke European Union Competition Law when supplying gas to eight countries of the integration unit - Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Estonia. In addition to overpricing, another alleged offense is tying gas contracts ...
... should also reckon with the changes that have taken place on the (regional and global) markets of supply and demand for commodities and services; the impact that the sanctions and the Russian countersanctions have had on the long-term priorities of Russia and the European Union; and the consequences that Russia’s “pivot to the east” will have for cooperation following the possible lifting of the sanctions and the associated removal of a number of political differences. These circumstances should be viewed ...
Renzi’s double-track diplomacy
The latest European Council meeting has showed (once again) that relations with the Russian Federation are still a dividing element within the European Union (EU). Different threat assessments and interests among Member States risk to hamper the efforts to build up a common approach towards Moscow which has emerged with the sanctions over Ukraine. The decision not to impose new “restrictive ...
