Europe ought to intensify cooperation with Russia, because without it is impossible to solve a whole range of international issues, writes in the publication for the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Vice-President of the Bundestag member of the Social democratic party of Germany Thomas Opperman. "We need a new joint initiative for the implementation of the Minsk agreements in order to resume the peace process in Ukraine. Germany and the European Union, together with Russia, must work to curb the danger to Israel from Iran and the nuclear agreement. Postwar Syria can only be In cooperation with Russia and to rebuild the country it is possible only together with the European Union. Also countries need to establish a disarmament initiative ",