... Russia, let 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 ...
... of the Trans-Atlantic community lit up with optimism looking at Russia. The end of the division of Europe seemed like the dawn ... ... 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 ... ... the fall of the USSR. The past months’ controversies over Ukraine evidently have a lot do with that, if less as a cause than ... ... ‘Euro-Atlantic’ sphere of interest. As it happens, the European Union has the resources (in the External Action Service) ...
... 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... ... Putin’s foreign policy, based on and justified by negative narratives, has made Russia 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...
... expansion of the 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.
First, the current work ... ... 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 ...
