Baltic Rim Economies, October 2021, Issue no. 4, pp. 103-104. Special issue on Russia.
EU-Russia relations have not reached a settled state: both actors, as well as the international order that they inhabit, remain in flux. However, 2021 may be remembered as the year when hopes for the reversal of the ongoing drift between Brussels and Moscow were finally dashed. The notion that confidence-building measures, effectuated today, could engender the resurrection of the “Greater Europe” vision over the medium-to-long term is dead.
A relationship with Russia on the basis of achieving “sameness” or “like-mindedness” is no longer a realistic goal. This has implications not only for ties between Russia and the EU, but also for EU foreign policy more generally.
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Dr. Zachary Paikin is a Researcher in the EU Foreign Policy unit at CEPS.