... be gradually replaced with a more practical discussion of how, together with Moscow, to help Ukraine overcome the current crisis. Such work would be incompatible with a policy of sanctions and would accelerate their lifting or at least easing.
Join Greater Europe together with Ukraine?
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Sergei Markedonov, Alexander Gushchin:
Russia and Ukraine: A Corridor of Opportunities
Obviously, the second scenario would require Russia to display much more diplomatic prowess, political flexibility and readiness to engage in dialogue with not overly friendly and reliable counterparts in ...
Task Force Position Paper
Task Force Position Paper
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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 issues could create a new period of confrontation in Europe.
That fear has now, sadly, become a reality.
As a result, while we believe the goal of a cooperative Greater Europe is still worth pursuing in the ...
... defence budgets in the EU have been steadily decreasing. President Obama renounced the EIS project and, reflecting mostly Germany’s position, all NATO deployments in Eastern Europe were halted in the past few years (only to be resumed in wake of the Ukraine crisis). Only when Russia’s modernised military invades its neighbours is it hard to argue against increased defence spending in the West. Greater Europe’s proponents highlight the need to resolve Europe’s frozen conflicts — and one wonders what the EU can do about Nagorno-Karabakh, where Russia is arming both sides; about Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which Russia created; ...
... in “Greater Europe”, Russia in Global Affairs, No. 3, July-September 2009 [x] It Is Time to Pursue a Cooperative Greater Europe, ELN-PISM-RIAC-USAK Task Force Position Paper, 2014 at /en/inner/?id_4=3055#top [xi] V. Putin: «A new integration ... ... Vilnius fiasco: Who is to blame? What is to be done?, CEPS Essay, No. 8 / 21.1.2014 [xiii] US and EU impose sanctions and warn Russia to relent in Ukraine standoff, The Guardian, 06.03.2014 at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/06/us-eu-sanctions-obama-russia-ukraine-crimea ...
... expansion of the Eastern Partnership is costly to all the parties involved, i.e. Ukraine, Russia and the European Union. The economic and political realities of today are discrediting... ... for me and seemingly for my opponents who regard Eastern Partnership as a success and Ukraine’s Euro-integration as its consequence.
Today, the European space boasts... ...
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Igor Ivanov, Des Browne, Adam Daniel Rotfeld:
We Need to Build Greater Europe
In the early 1990s, Europe shifted to a new qualitative level of integration...
... to meet the global challenges of the future.
Source:
Коммерсантъ
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Необходимо строить Большую Европу
Gazeta Wyborcza
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Budujmy Szerszą Europę. Pierwsze wyzwanie: Ukraina - Unia - Rosja
/ Let’s build Greater Europe. First challenge: Ukraine – EU - Russia
