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Diction on a seesaw: a report on the RIAC conference on EU-Russia relations / Part 2

... partnership and featuring representatives of big business, Mr Chubais said that the Customs Union has to be reflected in the negotiations as free trade between the EU and non-WTO-member Belarus and Kazakhstan is hardly imaginable. Downright contradicting Mr Barroso’s somewhat cliché suggestion of a free trade area stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the father of Russian privatization said that such talk ‘goes beyond political and economic realities’. Switching to a constructive ...

01.04.2013

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Diction on a seesaw: a report on the RIAC conference on EU-Russia relations / Part 1

... held in Moscow on March 21st As if a code of conduct had been circulated amongst participants, throughout the three discussion panels of the conference there was a consensus that an enhanced cooperation between Russia and the EU is necessary. Mr Medvedev and Mr Barroso defined the tone of the discussion in their opening speeches: the former talked about interdependence and the latter called for a strategic partnership. The foreign policy professionals that took the stage in the first discussion panel, argued ...

01.04.2013

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