FIVE-POINT STRATEGY FOR EU-RUSSIA RELATIONS at Europe's World
Updated 2008-03-06
The EU badly needs a new approach in its dealings with resurgent Russia, write Mark Leonard and Nicu Popescu. They set out the five broad elements of a fresh European strategy.
...In the 1990s, EU member states coalesced around a strategy of democratising and westernising a weak and indebted Russia, and managed to get the Russians to sign up to all major international standards on democracy and human rights. Btu since then, soaring oil and gas prices have made the Russian governing elite incredibly powerful, less cooperative and, above all, less interested in joining the west....
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