The former Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk, who at the beginning of winter will become the new Chairman of the Council of Europe, in an interview to the newspaper the financial times called the Russian Federation " strategic problem ".
" For Putin and Russia today, the EU is the problem. We must understand, and I think We are close to it that the Russian Federation is not our strategic partner. Russia is our strategic problem, " said Tusk edition.
" After the Bucharest NATO summit in 2008 in the capital of Romania - editor) I never doubted that geopolitical competition between Russia and Europe, Russia and Poland have played around Ukraine ", - said the politician.
at this summit, NATO said about the possibility of Ukraine. Russia has opposed this step.
Tusk will replace the head of the European Council Herman van Rompuy on his post on 1 December.
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