Why does Russia need a new framework agreement with the EU? What should it be like?

... strategic leap sometime in the future, if and when the conditions are right for it. Sergey Utkin, PhD, Head of the Strategic Assessments Unit at the Case Study Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Photo: Sergey Utkin Debates around the new EU-Russia framework agreement, which was expected to replace the existing Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between Russia and the EU, have been going on for years already. It made sense when the original term of the PCA was drawing to an end in 2007: ...