EU Resumes Partnership Talks with Russia Posted by The Editors

This post is from Eric Auner

Yesterday, the European Union, which rarely agrees on anything, agreed almost unanimously to resume partnership talks with Russia that had been suspended following Russia’s August War with Georgia.  Lithuania was the only dissenter.  In the words of Finland’s foreign minister “realpolitik has influenced this…it is in Europe’s interests to restart talks.”  This is part of an apparent trend of re-engagement with Russia, as evidenced by Michael Mullen’s meeting with his counterpart Nikolai Makarov last month.  It seems that Western powers are heeding the advice of Henry Kissinger and George Schultz when they wrote that “it is neither feasible nor desirable to isolate a country spanning one-eighth of the earth’s surface, adjoining Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and possessing a stockpile of nuclear weapons comparable to that of the United States.”  Various foreign policy challenges, including recent violence in South Ossetia and the financial crisis (which has strongly affected Russia), will demand broad cooperation between all involved. 

Both the EU and the United States must ensure, however, that closer ties are largely conditional on good behavior by Russia.  All Russian aggression should have real consequences.  Furthermore, there is always a danger that Europe’s dependence on Russian energy resources will divide Europe and prevent it from responding forcefully in the case of some future crisis.  For the time being, however, this recent move by the EU is an encouraging step.

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