Haughty by nature: on the EU’s outward rhetoric

... provoking Eurosceptic sentiment in a dangerous and misleading manner. But there is a bit of truth in the headlines; the EU is arrogant, if nowhere else but in its foreign policy. In the previous article, I accused the bloc of being patronising in its rhetoric toward its Eastern Partners, only to immediately acquit it, arguing that it is a primarily value-based conglomerate. Still, whether inevitable or not, this attitude stands in the way of the Eastern opening. Russia, for its part, will clearly ...