How Not to Talk with Russia
... encourage greater collaboration between Russia and the European Union. So far, none of Russia’s attempts have been successful. Consolation prizes and double speak Russia’s bitter grievances over its peripheral status are often countered by the West through references to the NATO-Russian Council and the EU-Russia Four Common Spaces, which Europeans see as sincere and honest attempts to engage Moscow in partnerships where membership was not feasible. I do not want to question the intentions of those who worked on the two projects in question, but their ...
15.03.2016
