European Council Summit: Waiting or New Sanctions?
... Department at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Europe and Russian International Affairs Council expert Olga Potemkina offers her thoughts on the situation. What will be the main items on the agenda? The overarching theme and main priority of the European Council Summit on December 18–19, 2014 will be economic and social policy. Participants will discuss the necessary measures and instruments for strengthening economic growth, creating new jobs and improving the competitiveness of the EU economy. The heads of state and government will have to approve the Annual Growth Survey for 2015 and the Report on Prevention Measures. Both documents were adopted by the Commission in Brussels in November 2014. The Annual Growth Survey 2015 marks the ...