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‘Estonia will not encourage the EU to boost ties with Russia’: an interview with Baltic-Russian relations expert Karmo Tüür

Karmo Tüür is head of the Centre for Baltic and Russian Studies at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He is an acknowledged political scientist with an expertise in Russia and its relations to the Baltic region and the EU. In this short interview, conducted on the sidelines of the international conference ...

04.04.2013

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Haughty by nature: on the EU’s outward rhetoric

... of the world would be, nonetheless, a lot easier with a more modest rhetoric. Europe might consider itself the land of freedom and solidarity. But fancying itself capable of exporting its norms, while morally justified, can be an obstacle to smooth rapprochement with the outside world, especially Russia.

14.03.2013

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