... – more central places in the emerging system of international relations of the XXI century. And they are not likely to agree to an inferior status that Brussels might want to offer them.
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Ivan Timofeev:
Cooperative Greater Europe at Risk: What Do
We Lose and What Could Be Done?
However, neither Russia, nor Turkey can turn away from Europe without an extremely high toll to pay for that move. Cooperation with the European Union is not necessarily a matter of national survival for our two nations. But without Europe neither the Russian, nor the Turkish modernization project is likely to succeed. Europe has many things that our other international partners cannot ...
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1. Introduction
In a
previous paper
, this Task Force argued that if Europeans did not begin pursuing a new, Greater European cooperative project, then divisions between the EU and Russia over Ukraine and between NATO and Russia on other ... ... Sanberk
Director of the International Strategic Research Organisation, former Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Turkey) (Task Force Co-Chair);
Paul Quilès
Former Defence Minister and former President of the Defence and Armed Forces ...
... actively involved in discussing this Greater Europe project, the more likely it becomes that it will correspond to its aspirations and interests.
The expert and political communities have recently displayed avid interest in the project of creating a Greater Europe. The three poles of extremely diverse and asymmetrically arranged spaces – Russia, the European Union and Turkey – and the nature of their relations play a decisive role in shaping the prospects of forming a Greater European “security community.” Meanwhile, growing competition among these poles leads to the opposite result,
the creation ...
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1. Why Greater Europe?
We believe recent divisions between the EU and Russia over the future ... ... Europe in its broadest sense geographically and politically, from Norway in the north to Turkey in the south and from Portugal in the west to Russia in the east. A project that... ... imports come from Russia. In turn, the share of oil, gas and coal deliveries to the European Union accounts for 80 percent, 70 percent and 50 percent (respectively) of...