... to the European world and order that existed 15, 20 or even 30 years ago. In that European order, there was no conflict over Ukraine, no sharp Eurozone crisis, no migration crisis on the present scale, no Brexit, and no rise of right-wing populism. That ... ... stakeholder in the project. This, in turn, predetermined the country’s turn toward Asia.
Andrey Kortunov:
One More Time on Greater Europe and Greater Eurasia
The second explanation is a systems one. Over this same quarter-century, Russia has not succeeded ...
... transaction costs.
2. Europe’s energy security is undermined. Transit routes through Ukraine will become an object of constant political manipulations. Resistance to the... ... amount of European technologies and investments, thereby losing one growth source. The European Union and other countries in the region face losing markets and a key impetus... ... blow to close social and human relations that create the living fabric of the future Greater Europe. Reducing travel and exchanges will only exacerbate mutual stereotypes...
... alone against active Russian opposition.
This objective reality does not depend on what various politicians in Kiev or Moscow might think and it will inevitably push all the parties to the conflict towards closer interaction within the Russia – Ukraine – European Union triangle. In the longer perspective, we are moving toward a Greater Europe, a common economic space from Lisbon to Vladivostok, and the current Ukrainian crisis has merely slowed down this historical process but cannot stop it. Let us note parenthetically that creation of a common space consisting of both Ukraine ...
Task Force Position Paper
Task Force Position Paper
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1. Introduction
In a
previous paper
, this Task Force argued that if Europeans did not begin pursuing a new, Greater European cooperative project, then divisions between the EU and Russia over Ukraine and between NATO and Russia on other issues could create a new period of confrontation in Europe.
That fear has now, sadly, become a reality.
As a result, while we believe the goal of a cooperative Greater Europe is still worth pursuing in the ...
... newest term. Think-tanks continue to create consortiums, like the RIAC-ELN-PISM-USAK one, to elaborate and advocate the idea of Greater Europe. Yet in May 2014 we are further from that than even in the decade preceding the fall of the USSR. The past months’ controversies over Ukraine evidently have a lot do with that, if less as a cause than as proof. Russia’s foreign policy baggage In Russia, ... ... message that the EU is looking to tie its partners down in the ‘Euro-Atlantic’ sphere of interest. As it happens, the European Union has the resources (in the External Action Service) to step up relations with partner countries on a bilateral basis; ...
... eventually folds out: how Europe reacts to a potential Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine, and how it manages to support the new government in Kiev. Much depends on Moldova... ... overlap between 28 different ones, we would soon see an internationally more confident European Union. For that, Eurosceptic fears that the common foreign policy will squeeze... ... a completely unreliable partner, invariably degrading the concept of a cooperative Greater Europe to the domain of illusion. The constant drive to prove Russia’s...
... Eastern Partnership is costly to all the parties involved, i.e. Ukraine, Russia and the European Union. The economic and political realities of today are discrediting the ideology... ... for me and seemingly for my opponents who regard Eastern Partnership as a success and Ukraine’s Euro-integration as its consequence.
Today, the European space boasts... ...
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Igor Ivanov, Des Browne, Adam Daniel Rotfeld:
We Need to Build Greater Europe
In the early 1990s, Europe shifted to a new qualitative level of integration...
... situation in Ukraine. Enhanced stability, rule of law and better prospects for economic development should all be possible for Ukraine if it pursues improved relations both with the European Union and with Russia.
Beyond the controversy surrounding the Vilnius Summit, the priorities for cooperation are clear.... ... wider efforts at nuclear non-proliferation, including but going beyond Iran, are all priorities too.
Second, we need to build Greater Europe as a meaningful security community. This is where the trust-building challenge is the greatest and where it is ...
