Reducing Risks and Cutting Costs: The Art of Confrontation Management

... continent’s future. Without such a discussion, any step taken by the EU leadership to meet Russia halfway will inevitably face criticism from the numerous opponents of a rapprochement with Moscow, and EU policy will devolve into its lowest common denominator from among the positions of its members every single time. Furthermore, since new problems will continue to pop up for bureaucrats in Brussels, the “Russian folder” will end up buried under a thick layer of other, equally important but more ...