Russia: After Samara
EU leaders travel to Samara, Russia on May 18th in an attempt to resolve serious differences with Russia across a range of issues. A new EU-Russia treaty has been ruled out; any agreement that does come out of the meeting will be limited; and the best hope is for relations not to deteriorate further. Germany, which as president of the EU will lead discussions, will increasingly face a major foreign policy dilemma of its own: whether to pursue stronger bilateral relations with Russia, or to continue seeking a more complex EU-based policy over the coming years, but risk weakening Germany's own special relationship.
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