... RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, IMEMO Director Academician Alexander Dynkin and Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine Fyodor Lukyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, visited the Embassy of France to meet with Head of Continental Europe Department at French Foreign Ministry Florence Mangin for the discussion of Ukraine settlement, implementation progress of Minsk accords, Syria and initial results of the Vienna process on Syria, Moldova,...
... Prime Minister Viktor Orban is sharply critical of the German Government and says that Europe is unprepared for a new “migration of peoples.” All this is accompanied by the renewed discussion on the future of the Schengen agreement and the European Union.
Amid this turmoil, the situation in France merits particular attention. French political life is traditionally diverse, vibrant and perceptive of external impulses. European events, be it debates on the EU Constitution or another expansion of European institutions, invariably trigger stormy ...
... Werner Faymann told the Austrian national daily Der Standard.
Austria is Germany’s closest and most reliable ally in the European Union. The Austrian economy is closely connected to Germany and is based on the same model. Like the other donor countries,... ... critical of the Greek economic policy, but the recent events have shocked it, along with other countries.
Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls said, trying to convince the divided French parliament to approve a new bailout package for Athens: “We ...
... Cherif Kouachi, the "brothers from our team," who carried out the massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on the 7th of January,2015.
picture alliance / Tone Koene / Vostock Photo
Eugenia Obichkina:
Counter-Terrorism Mobilization in France
He added that: "We did things a bit together and a bit apart, so that it'd have more impact," and added that he had helped the brothers financially with "a few thousand euros" for the operation. Also frequent contact between ...
... democracies, which would realize that an excessive weakening of Russia is not in their interests. France may be the proponent of this course, although it may be difficult to implement at the present time, given Paris’s diminished clout within the European Union and the inability of France and Germany to find a common stance with regard to the problem.
At the same time, Russia should not spurn more modest, “routine” cooperation within Interpol and in the bilateral format such as the Franco-Russian Cooperation Council ...
Interview
The outcome of the recent municipal elections in France has confirmed the Socialists’ declining popularity and the rise of the extreme right National Front Party. What sort of developments can we expect on the French political scene? What will François Hollande do to salvage his ratings?...
... way impede the development of extensive links with the states in other regions: this is what everybody does in the era of globalization.
Second, the question of Ukraine’s membership in the European Union is not even on the long-term agenda: the European Union seems to have reached its geographical limit; at least this is what many people in France believe.
Third, the kind of financial support that that Central European countries once received from the European Union now belongs to the realm of fantasy, as there are simply no resources for that today. Some economic aid will of course come ...
On February 28, 2014 in Paris, RIAC President Igor Ivanov read a public lecture on current problems in international relations and Russian foreign policy before a large group of French experts, diplomats, journalists and civil society leaders.
Organized by French-Russian
think tank l'Observatoire
, a RIAC partner, and French foundation
Concorde
, the event was also attended by representatives of foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Paris.
Text of the speech...
... fruitful past and promising future.
The participants agreed that currently Moscow and Paris have to construct the dialog in an unfavorable environment due to domestic problems in both countries, the global economic crisis and economic troubles of the European Union. Dr. Kortunov believes that France and Russia should define the most advanced areas of the bilateral relationship and deepen the cooperation.
The workshop marked the first stage of the RIAC project on the Russian-French relations.
Workshop “Russia and France: a New Agenda ...
On April 18-20, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, a RIAC corporate member, held conference “Russia and European Union: the Dynamics of the Relationship” aimed to adjust the research of Europe experts and accentuate the significance of the European vector in Russia’s foreign policy.
The event was attended by leading Russian and foreign scholars ...
