Haughty by nature: on the EU’s outward rhetoric

... provoking Eurosceptic sentiment in a dangerous and misleading manner. But there is a bit of truth in the headlines; the EU is arrogant, if nowhere else but in its foreign policy. In the previous article, I accused the bloc of being patronising in its rhetoric toward its Eastern Partners, only to immediately acquit it, arguing that it is a primarily value-based conglomerate. Still, whether inevitable or not, this attitude stands in the way of the Eastern opening. Russia, for its part, will clearly not queue up to kiss Europe’s hands. Not exactly happy-go-lucky Certainly, there is motivation to join the queue. Every bit of the economies of the Eastern European countries involved in the EU’s ...