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ALEXANDER V. GRUSHKOа
аMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
DOI: 10.22394/2070-8378-2020-22-1-23-25
Abstract:
The article was based on the author’s speech on the topic ‘Greater Europe: in the process of establishment?’ at the Gaidar Forum 2020. The participants of the discussion, moderated by Giles Merritt, the founder and chairman of Friends of Europe, and Igor Jurgens, the board member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, exchanged their opinions on the tools and mechanisms for resolving disagreements on the implementation of the project ‘Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok’ and further progress on the agreed issues. The author’s view on the fundamental issues of the modern international agenda represents the official position of the Russian side on cooperation on the European continent and contains a systematic assessment of the current stage of relations between Russia and the European Union. It is noted that expert discussion platforms such as the Gaidar Forum allow to identify existing problems and outline possible ways of overcoming them. The author suggests dividing the issue of building the Greater Europe into three components that form a single complex. First of all, it is proposed to assess the current geopolitical situation in order to understand that the modern world is turbulent. The author insists that postponing cooperation issues until better times cannot help to find optimal ways of interaction between countries. The article contains analysis of economic ties between Russia and the EU that proves fundamental importance of their bilateral relations for the whole world and the necessity to develop Russia-EU cooperation.
Keywords:
“Greater Europe”, Russia, cooperation, security, international law, international stability
Received:
February 10, 2020
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