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"en.20080901.20.1-139"2
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"Mr President, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Europe has been impotent in the face of Russian aggression. Whereas condemnation has greeted Russia’s effective annexation of parts of the sovereign state of Georgia, even the tone from within the EU has varied.
The message of ambivalence will not be lost on Moscow. It is hardly shaking in its boots over the divided mutterings of Europe.
Without a robust response to Russian aggression, I fear these matters will not end with Georgia. Is Ukraine next, one has to wonder? And what will it take, with the EU now having made itself wittingly so dependent on Russian energy, to eventually permit an effective response?
If the last few weeks have demonstrated anything, they have been an object lesson in the unworkability of a common foreign policy in this EU. It has merely delivered the paralysis..."@en1
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