... Moscow.
On July 29, 2019, Alexei Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with a group of European diplomats, including ambassadors from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, at the Belgian Embassy in Moscow.
The following issues were discussed in the course of the meeting: possible areas for the development of the relations between Russia and the European Union in the context of the elections to the European Parliament held in May and the change of leaders in the European Commission and other EU bodies. Special attention was paid to the role of Russia and the European Union in resolving the conflict ...
On November 18, 2018, in the residence of the Ambassador of Belgium to Russia, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC General Director, met with the Belgian delegation from The Royal Institute for International Relations (EGMONT) visiting Moscow, as well as with Marc Franco, former Head of the European Commission to Russia.
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... October 23, 2018, Andrey Zagorsky, RIAC Member, Director of IMEMO RAS Department of Disarmament and Conflict Resolution, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with Axel Kenes, Director General for Multilateral Affairs and Globalisation at Belgium MFA, and the staff of the Belgian Foreign Ministry.
The following issues were discussed during the meeting: current issues in interaction between Russia and the European Union and the possibility for rapprochement of the positions of the parties on the settlement of the Syrian and Ukrainian crises. The meeting also touched upon the problems of forming a new European security system in the context of a possible ...
... jihadist centers –
called
Belgian security measures “an excellent example of organized chaos”.
As a result, Belgium provided a perfect environment for the appearance and dissemination of radicalized Islam. However, previously the hatred ... ... March 2004 and the Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (Frontex) was created, these seem to be insufficient now, and a new reform is long overdue. In particular, the ...
... to end in a predictable outcome.
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A graphical depiction of Belgium's product exports
However, the scenario by no means fits either the realities of the Kingdom of Belgium or the European-wide context of the construction of a homogeneous European Union. The EU is not at all willing to see Belgium split, as its capital at the same time serves as its political and economic center that houses several dozen thousand Euro-bureaucrats and the offices of major European and global corporations. One more facet of the
Belgian puzzle
is the fact ...
Separatists in Europe: Strangers among Friends
Separatism is most apparent in certain regions of such European Union members as Great Britain (Scotland, Northern Ireland), Spain (Catalonia, Basque Provinces), Belgium (Flanders), Italy (northern provinces), and France (Corsica). Separatist activity manifests not only within the political sphere, but sometimes (in Northern Ireland, Basque Country and Corsica) it also translates into terrorist attacks. A considerable ...
