... European Leadership Network (
ELN
), the Munich Security Conference (
MSC
), the Russian International Affairs Council (
RIAC
), and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (
NTI
)—have been working with former and current officials and experts from a group of Euro-Atlantic states and the European Union to test ideas and develop proposals for improving security in areas of existential common interest. The EASLG operates as an independent and informal initiative, with participants who reflect the diversity of the Euro-Atlantic region from ...
... euro zone, mounting migration problems, the threat of separatism, signs of a confrontation between the North and South of the European Union and much, much else. Russia, too, is looking at difficult days ahead when it will have to find fundamentally new ... ... situation does not augur well for revival of the Greater Europe project.
7. Against this background, the familiar concept of the Euro-Atlantic space takes on a new meaning. Until recently, it implied that it should stretch, in all its dimensions, at least ...
... space (and creation of a Wider Europe through its expansion), and, on the other, with the unlikely inclusion of Russia into the Euro-Atlantic model of Wider Europe and Moscow's mounting resistance to Western pressure. However, the key ESS members currently ... ... philosophy of Wider Europe. The Wider Europe project is aimed at establishing equal cooperation between the United States, the European Union. Russia is unlikely to have any strategic interest for Washington. On the other hand, the domestic European conflict ...
