Carnegie Moscow Center
Germany’s conservatives and Social Democrats have set out their new foreign policy agenda. With few exceptions, Berlin still refuses to think strategically.
The Eastern Partnership states and the EU have to acknowledge their own failures instead of playing a “blame game” and work together to make the partnership a success.
Ten days before the Eastern Partnership Vilnius Summit, Ukraine still has to prove it will pursue reforms. Tymoshenko’s fate complicates matters.
In the run-up to the EU’s Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, Europeans have been surprisingly united in the defense of their values, but also their interests.
Russia-EU relations are of a technical rather than strategic character nowadays. A parallel functioning of the EU and the Eurasian Union would lead to more debate about strategic vision of Europe and the Eurasian continent.
The experiment of a peaceful power transfer in Georgia, if successful, will determine more than just the country’s future. It will reveal the possible trajectory of other post-Soviet states that will attempt to move toward an open society.
Russia has repeatedly resorted to imposing embargoes on EU countries to test Europeans’ unity. Yet in almost all cases, Moscow’s bullying has failed to break EU solidarity.
Ukraine’s trajectory in the coming months and years will serve as a test of Russia’s global role and how far the West is prepared to expand its influence.
A series of NATO exercises reveals much about EU member states’ diverse approaches to defense. Will Steadfast Jazz be the catalyst for a stronger security and defense doctrine?
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who was the first Polish non-communist prime minister, died on October 28. He will be remembered as a Man Who Helped to Open a New Era—and not only for Poland.