Policy Recommendations
Policy Recommendations

Author(s): Alexander Duleba
Subject(s): Politics, Education, Political history, Economic policy, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: EU; Russia; relations; foreign policy; recommendations;
Summary/Abstract: Summing up the experience of the EU-Russia cooperation within the Common Spaces the following might be the main three condusions: First, the Common Spaces structure is a well established institutional framework to maintain a wide-ranging political and sectoral dialogue between the EU and Russia, and should be preserved; Second, except for some positive samples of progress achieved on sedoral issues CS has brought rather modest outcomes in relation to the initial expectations of both sides; and Third, the reason for the limited results of the dialogue and cooperation within all four CS is of a political nature: a lack of political will or mutual trust, inability of both sides to agree on terms and values, Russia's reluctance to accept EU standards, etc.

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