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Without the human factor, nothing else is likely to work Has the crisis in Ukraine completely erased the idea of Greater Europe from the agendas of politicians and analysts in the West and the East of our continent? Pessimism appears to be reigning all over Europe these days. Indeed, with people being killed every day in the very center of Europe, any talk of a ...
Working Paper #17, 2014 The Working Paper includes analytical papers on building the concept of Greater Europe. The papers are prepared by RIAC and partner organizations in the framework of a research project “A Cooperative Greater Europe by 2030”. The Working Paper analyzes the concept of Greater Europe, its structural principles, and mechanisms ...
... integration paradigms and think about new approaches. However, this is not to say that the European economic area is not expanding. On the contrary, it is vigorously evolving in different directions. These processes will serve as the grounds for the Greater Europe project, while any attempts to establish additional political institutions are unlikely to bear fruit. Today, Brussels operates as an umbrella for emerging peripheral trade areas in Southern and Eastern Europe, primarily through the Central ...
... 2014, websites of the Russian International Affairs Council, European Leadership Network , Polish Institute of International Affairs and International Strategic Research Organization in Ankara placed the statement of Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe on mechanisms for crisis settlement in Europe in the Ukraine context. Authored by RIAC President Igor Ivanov, former UK Defence Secretary Des Browne, former Polish Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld, as well as by Ambassador Extraordinary ...
Task Force Position Paper Task Force Position Paper * 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 ...
... economic and security cooperation from Lisbon to Vladivostok one of his foreign policy priorities several times throughout his 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 ...
On May 30 in Warsaw, RIAC President Igor Ivanov, Director General Andrey Kortunov and Program Director Ivan Timofeyev took part in a meeting of RIAC-ELN-PISM Working Group “Cooperative Greater Europe by 2030” devoted to discussion of steps to restore trust in Europe. Along with mechanisms for settling Ukraine crisis, the participants covered confidence building measures, the role the arms control regime, and prospects for economic ...
... currency union emerges with time, the common currency will probably not be the Kazakh tenge, but the Russian rouble. The trust issue In the Vedomosti-article in which he first embraced the idea of a Eurasian Union, Putin refers to the concept of ‘Greater Europe’ (elsewhere referred to as “wider Europe”, or “Lisbon to Vladivostok”), a cooperative community in the wider European space based on, as he writes, the ‘shared values of freedom, democracy and market ...
On April 25, 2014 in Moscow, the international task force "Greater Europe 2030" held its third session organized by the Russian International Affairs Council, the European Leadership Network ( ELN ), Polish Institute of International Affairs ( PISM ) and Turkish International Strategic Research Organization ...
On April 25, 2014 RIAC and MGIMO-University held a roundtable "Prospects for Greater Europe" within the framework of the Global University Forum 2014 . Opening the session, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov presented the project " A Cooperative Greater Europe by 2030 " implemented ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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