... Islamic Revolution. Unlike the United States, they continued to purchase Iranian oil and invest in Iranian industry. The United States was only able to end this independence in the 2010s under the threat of secondary sanctions and financial penalties. The European Union criticised the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Germany and France were particularly vocal. Even Moscow adopted a more cautious and balanced policy. Finally, after the Ukraine crisis started in 2014, the EU was hardly in a hurry to escalate ...
... majority. They will still have to be spoken to on equal terms, even taking into account the US leadership in many areas.
The European Union retains decent financial, industrial, infrastructural and human capabilities. But their conversion into political ... ... developing skills in the field of common security policy. This experience cannot be discounted. Attempts to strengthen its role in international relations will continue. But the Union will have to simultaneously work on its cohesion. The Ukrainian issue, as ...
... Council was represented at the meeting by its Director General Andrey Kortunov.
The discussion, moderated by French Ambassador to Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert, covered the issues of Russia’s foreign and domestic policy, European security and the European Union’s future, Russian-French relations, as well as development of the system of international relations as a whole, in particular, the prospects for international legal practice of “Humanitarian Intervention” and “Responsibility for Protection” concepts, introduced with the help of B. Kushner.
