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Russia, EU: On the Eve of Samara Summit

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe, Belgium, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Economics & Business, Environment, Governance, International Relations, Language, Politics

Time to study Russian, again, writes [1] Jonathan Newton of Tales from the European Underbelly: “I would have had much use for such skills today, as I seem to be surrounded by Russian-speaking colleagues at the EU Council’s Press Centre, where the EU’s foreign ministers and assorted colleagues will wriggle around the question what to do with the EU-Russian summit on Friday when the two are so at odds with eachother that they aren’t even pretending that there will be any outcome of that meeting; and when plenty of EU member states want the meeting called off altogether.”