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"Mr President, the next European Union-Russia summit will take place between a Russian Federation on the rise – be it only provisionally – and an EU not only affected by the Irish ‘no’ on the Lisbon Treaty but, moreover, by the lack of a clear vision on how to get out of this crisis.
Russia itself is a divisive issue in the European Union. Actually, it divided us into ideologists and pragmatics; into confrontational geo-strategists and conciliatorists; into old Cold War fighters and new utilitarian opportunists.
On the other hand, a major problem is that Russia does not have a European Union policy but prefers to deal with each member of the Union separately. We will not be able to change this situation before we put in place a true common European policy for Russia. We must tell Russia that, in order to be able to do good business with us and benefit from the mutual opening of the markets, one needs an institutional and political interoperability guaranteeing the separation between economic policies and geo-political strategies.
Therefore, a common space of justice, freedom and security characterised by transparency, accountability and openness is needed."@en1
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