Angelina Timofeeva. Good Relations between Germany and Russia for maintaining peace and stability in the European Union, told the participants Presentation of the book " on the edge. Polemical experience in connection with a different approach to Russia " German journalist and politician Wilfried Sernaglia, which took place on Thursday in Berlin. "Relations between Germany and Russia is crucial to maintaining peace and stability in the European Union ", - said the guest of honor events Egon Bar - politician, member of the SPD (Social democratic party) and one of the authors of the "new Eastern policy" of the government of Willy Brandt, which led to d?tente in the relations between the FRG, the GDR and the USSR. According to the Patriarch of German politics, the global war between East and West is not expected in the near future not only because of the agreements between Moscow and Washington, which, According to the Bar, and include a Treaty on Crimea, But because of the categorical position of the German government, " despite his against small political weight ". Bar also criticized the punishment imposed against Russia, which has become an instrument of danger ". According to the Bar, in the end, unclear boundaries, the extent to which penalties are able to be tightened." The failure to invite Russia to the G7 summit in Bavaria is also a mistake, " added Bar. "I don't know of any country in the West that is willing to wage war for, to return the Crimea to Ukraine. Much is reported about the fact that the annexation of Crimea was the failures of international law. But do the actions of Khrushchev, who with one stroke of the pen, Without conducting any surveys severed Crimea from Russia and gave it to Ukraine, were not egregious failures of this right?", said the Creator of the book and a member of the Christian social Union Wilfried Scharnagl, who also participated in obgovarivaya. "Rather than remove the punishment, the better it will be for the peaceful future of all Europe, relations between Russia and Germany," said Scharnagl, adding that " punishment have the opportunity to have some meaning, if you enter them against countries like San Marino, But not against such a huge country as Russia. The demonization of Russia has the opportunity to be a policy, it is not even the beginning of it, quoted Henry Kissinger (U.S. Secretary of state in 1973-1977 years) the head of the German-Russian forum, a member of the Social democratic party of Germany Matthias Platzeck." We are dealing with extremely complex conflict in Ukraine, but We are obliged to meet this difficulty, and not slip into a black-and-white assessments during the cold war, " said Platzeck. "We live in a world in the twenty-first century is a time of growing instability and threats. It is impossible to achieve lasting stability on our continent Without Russia. Without Russia We will achieve only more questions, " said Platzeck.