(MENAFN)According to analysts, the EU failed to create a common approach in its strategy or proactive political mechanism for handling with Russia and the Kremlin capitalizes on divergences amid the bloc’s member states.
Visne Korkmaz, a professor of International Relations at Nisantasi University stated in a web panel titled “Strained EU-Russian Relations: Business as Usual?” managed by the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, a think tank in Brussels that “Europeans want to change Russian behavior, but there is no political mechanism to initiate this. The Minsk agreement and Normandy format aren’t working, and there is no intention to create another new process through this escalation.”
Regardless of tensions existing for over a decade, the EU has failed to reach a united policy against Russia with the rare exception of a deal on sanctions, stated Amanda Paul, a senior policy analyst at the European Policy Centre, she added that these divisions within the EU have only inspired the Kremlin.
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