EU soft on Moscow
My online friend Evgeny Morozov wrote yet another brilliant commentary for “Brussels Journal”:
The Russia-EU summit which took place in the Russian city of Sochi last week, was another foreign policy debacle for the European Union. Of course, the EU did reach a number of technical agreements with the Kremlin on issues like visa facilitation, but those had been on the agenda for several years and even the disaster management team of Solana, Barosso and Schüssel, which entertained the Russians in Sochi, could not have failed to sign them (though Solana, according to a Russian paper, was drunk during most of the ceremonial proceedings).
Read it all. Highly recommended.
June 1st, 2006 at 6:41 am
They arent soft… they’re just bureaucratically challenged.. like most of the world. It takes some 1000+ people to proof read, re-read, change, modify, sanitize etc etc etc till something completely unrelated to the original document finally rolls out of the paper factory. Its funny how a complete 50 story building can be designed and built in the middle of the desert (Dubai) in a week, while it takes 3 years to just get past the design phase in a western country.