Russia and the European Union after 2007
Russia and the European Union after 2007

Author(s): Timofei Bordachev
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, International relations/trade
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Russia-EU relations; political and legal relations;
Summary/Abstract: The development of a new format for developing political and legal relations between Russia and the European Union requires revising some of the present approaches. First, the future model of Russia-EU relations must reflect Russia’s special role in Europe and the world. Second, the new agreement cannot be an ‘instruction’ for drawing Russia closer to the constantly changing regulatory policies concerning political and economic life in the European Union. And third, any new document between the parties must avoid evaluative judgments about thestate of the Russian economy and its society as a whole. The author advocates at hree-level system of political and legal relations between Russia and the EU. At level one, a Declaration for a Strategic Union would set the framework.

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