ISAC’S CFSP POLICY OPINION No 2 / November 2015
ISAC’S CFSP POLICY OPINION No 2 / November 2015

Author(s): Karsten D. Voigt
Subject(s): Politics, International relations/trade, Security and defense, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: ISAC - Centar za međunarodne i bezbednosne poslove
Keywords: European Union; United States Relations; Russia Policy; European Defence Integration; Serbia’s European Identity
Summary/Abstract: The positive thing about the USA President’s administration is that it is in favor of strong Europe, not of the weak Europe, which hasn’t always been the case. And I think that this should not be taken as given, we always have to work on it, but for the present time, I think this is obviously the position of the Obama administration. Beyond that, the Americans have difficulties to understand functioning of the EU, you find few people, if any, in the Congress, who understand it, and that is what they have in common with the Russians. Only that Russians now have discovered that the EU has a need to be taken seriously. They take the action against the EU and their major conflict is about the values which we define in the Charter of Paris and in the OSCE. And therefore there is a debate at this time in Germany, and I think that the active elite is united on it across party lines – not everybody in Germany – but the active people are united on it that we might possibly be in a new phase of our relationship with Russia.

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