Briefing paper

Audience: High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Topic: How should the EU formulate a new common strategy towards the Russian Federation? What should be the main priorities of this strategy? (Take into consideration also the current EU policy towards Eastern Partnership region, when you will formulate the common strategy in relation to Russia)

Recommended for further study:

Podcast: Mark Leonard´s World in 30 Minutes: Stranger in Moscow. Borrell´s unwelcome visit. 

 Dmitri Trenin (2021): Russia and Europe: the Current Impass and the Way Out. Carnegie Moscow Center, 18.02.2021

Carl Bild, Gustav Gressel, Kadri Liik and Ninu Popescu (2021): Push back, contain and engage: How the EU should approach relations with Russia. European Council on Foreign Relations. Policy Brief, 25 March 2021