The European project and Russia : the necessity to identify common geopolitical interests to overcome the current crisis

... cooperation paradigm to prevail, the central question is the following: can we, in the long term, envision a "Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok" combined with a "Security space from Vancouver to Vladivostok"? The German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently reminded Europeans about the option of an "Economic space from Lisbon to Vladivostok" after full implementation of Minsk Agreements[11]. The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, on the other hand, previously suggested, in June 2008, a "new European ...