The project "Eastern partnership" has become a bone of contention for the EU, whose members do not have the opportunity to Decide on its attitude to Moscow, says the Agency.
the publication notes that the Eastern European countries, such as Estonia, I believe that the EU should take a tougher stance towards Moscow and to open doors for Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, who want to join the EU.
However, Western European taxpayers are afraid of the rising costs of EU enlargement, the inclusion mired in debt of Ukraine with its 45 million people. In these circumstances, some leaders, for example, Angela Merkel, trying to ease the tension in relations with Russia, called the "false expectations" such aspirations of the leaders of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova.
Echoed by Merkel and the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande, emphasizing the unresolved question of the membership in the EU Eastern neighbors. Noting a number of issues on the southern flank of the EU, as well As uncontrolled flow of migration across the Mediterranean and the middle East conflict, the French leader drew attention to the importance and necessity of global cooperation with Russia.
"We can't turn the Eastern partnership into another conflict with Russia," he said.- I'm sure the European Union and Russia have the opportunity to dialogue in the future ".
Moreover, certain eurodisplay preparing the Riga summit, I believe that the Eastern partnership should bring to an end, because this modest Project aroused heated rhetoric in the style of the cold war and the present bloodshed after the last one, in 2013.
"No one says out loud that We have to roll this Project," said one of eurodeposits, Russia is provided in word and deed that he considered "Eastern partnership" geopolitical project aimed against her. But the EU is not engaged in geopolitics ".
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