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For the European Union it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain unity and solidarity On February 1, 2019, Italy blocked the European Union’s statement recognizing Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela, thereby compromising again the EU’s ...
... kortunov, RIAc Director General, and Dmitry Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, RIAC Member, had a meeting with Marian Jakubocy, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, visiting Moscow. The relations between Russia and the European Union, as well as between Russia and the Visegrád Group states, were discussed in the context of Slovakia’s chairmanship in the OSCE. The meeting was also attended by the staff of the Slovak Embassy in Moscow and the Slovak Foreign Ministry....
On January 25, 2019, RIAC hosted a meeting with Vasile Soare, Romanian Ambassador to Russia, and Viorel Cojocaru, Deputy Head of Mission. The meeting focused on the issues of future interaction between RIAC and the Embassy in organizing and conducting a joint seminar on Russia-EU relations. On January 25, 2019, RIAC hosted a meeting with Vasile Soare, Romanian Ambassador to Russia, and Viorel Cojocaru, Deputy Head of Mission. The meeting focused on the issues of future interaction between RIAC...
... Methods Can no Longer be Used to Solve Europe’s Problems 2016 was perhaps the most difficult year for Europe since the turn of the century. Under the inept leadership of David Cameron’s cabinet, the United Kingdom voted in favour of leaving the European Union. The United States elected Donald Trump, an outspoken critic of the European project, as its president. The European continent continued to fight the unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants. A wave of right-wing populism threatened ...
... In October 2018, Matteo Salvini and the leader of France’s National Rally Marine Le Pen announced they were pooling their efforts at the European elections. Le Pen said that Matteo Salvini and she are not “fighting against Europe but against the European Union that has become a totalitarian system.” This is certainly one of the chief irritating factors in the relations between Rome and Paris. While Emmanuel Macron proposes an “Initiative for Europe” and urges a new stage in EU integration,...
... rule, they only slightly match with the real needs of the region and its population. Moreover, lately they have been concerned more with the policies dictated to them by an escalation of tensions between regional players. Present-day situation The European Union offered all the Balkan peoples a so-called “European future”. The political elites and the population of the countries belonging to the region cannot imagine themselves without such a future. Although the percentage of Euro-optimists ...
... provocations, with the final decision, which implies territorial swapping and demarcation, becoming less and less acceptable. Since 2009, the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade has been transferred from the UN mediation format under the jurisdiction of the European Union. In the eyes of the EU politicians, taking the opportunity to independently resolve security backlogs and tackle all their vulnerable elements was vital in order to overcome the perception of the EU inability to resolve major foreign policy ...
... Europe, its economies will flounder. Cui bono? Russia that can reap benefits from the two-way BRI or Arctic trade routes or moribund United States that can no longer rule roost in an increasingly multipolar world? Trump’s diplomatic downgrade of the European Union and his opposition to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline matches this trade-disruption hypothesis, as do pressures applied on India and China to drop energy and trade ties with Iran. Washington’s trade war with Beijing and recent charges ...
... heavyweights), which served to attract trade flows away from neighboring economies – the result of the gravity pull of trade flows was the so-called “domino effect” that led to more and more European countries opting to join the ever expanding and massive European Union. Times have changed since, and with the EU facing the Brexit challenge, the next “integration growth” cycle may be performed by the Global South, whose nation states and integration blocks are still largely fragmented, most notably ...
... precision and help develop a strategy for interacting with the countries of the region. Russia's withdrawal from the Balkans means a loss of standing in southeast Europe, which will limit room for action in the Mediterranean. That will result in the European Union and NATO exerting even greater pressure on the Transcaucasian states and Belarus. The loss of the Balkans will narrow Russia's room for manoeuvre in its relations with Turkey, a country that is bolstering its standing in Southeast Europe....
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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