... authority and the peripheral regional authority. Now, the German-speakers there live peacefully within Italy as citizens of the European Union.
This integration-through-decentralization process into the Italian national identity shows how a widely shared ... ... themselves organic parts of a greater European family of nations. This is despite the fact that Austria, even now, is not a NATO member and only joined the EU in 1995, 24 years after the agreement on South Tyrol had been reached.
Neither country had ...
... the principal trading partner, and a prime source of technology and investment. Yet despite being an economic powerhouse, the European Union is dismissed by Russians as a geopolitical and strategic player. When it comes to world politics or geostrategy,... ... time in Russia-EU relations, with intense feelings of malaise on both sides.
Despite the ongoing U.S.-Russia confrontation, the NATO-Russia military standoff in Europe is still relatively low-level. While preparing for various contingencies, neither side ...
... working within the pro-Western paradigm and lead the country towards collaboration with international financial bodies, the European Union and NATO. Russia–Ukraine relations will largely depend on the general trends in U.S.–Russia relations, and I think gradually moving ... ... the self-proclaimed republics would be out of the question. This can be interpreted as a step towards non-compliance with the Minsk agreements. Additionally, since Ukraine is a parliamentary-presidential republic, and since V. Zelensky does not have his ...
... to Brussels.
Besides, while the eastern members of the Euro-Atlantic community, such as Poland and the Baltic countries, see NATO enlargement and increased military presence on the eastern borders as possible advantages, “old Europe” sees this as an additional risk for the European Union which already has its hands full of problems. As long as countering the “threat from the East” remains ... ... predict the reaction of the public opinion in various political circles in Europe if this threat becomes real.
How to make the Minsk agreements work?
The Obama Administration today is not interested in re-initiating the conflict, although it is not publicly ...
