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Relazioni UE-Russia: spunti interessanti (in inglese)
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Oggi ho trovato questo articolo che magari gli appassionati di geopolitica del forum avranno piacere di leggere.
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EU-Russia Relations: A bitter love affair       
    

'Our goal is to create a common European space for the benefits of our citizens'. Thus European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso explained the new EU-Russian agreement on enhanced cooperation. The non-binding agreement extends the earlier similar commitments signed in St Petersburg in May 2003. Referring to the progress achieved, current President of the European Council and the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Junker offered the following assessment of the Moscow Accord: 'In St. Petersburg we set ourselves the objective of creating a common economic space. Today we have reached an agreement on the four spaces, including the most difficult elements'.

With all the talk of space it is easy to miss the point of all this: the non-binding agreement signed in Moscow offers little in terms of resolving the long-standing trade, investment and freedom of movement issues that separate Russia from Europe.

With respect to the economic 'space' the new agreement largely reproduces the 2003 Accord. This means that Russia still cannot gain access to the WTO - the EU as the largest trading partner of Russia is responsible for the first stage entry agreement and it is the EU that is blocking the deal. The bilateral trade flows between Russia and the EU were €100 billion in 2004, most of it due to gas and oil exports from Russia. Most Russian goods exported to the EU continue to face draconian tariffs and other restrictions. The earlier agreements imposing strict quotas on Russian steel, chemicals, textiles and some other industrial goods remain in place.

In terms of freedom of movement, the EU continues to insist on a patently ridiculous clause - Russia's acceptance of all non-Russian illegal migrants that enter the EU from the East. Never mind that these migrants violate Russian immigration laws as much as European ones - Russia must, according to the EU - assume responsibility for them before the EU allows visa-free travel for law-abiding Russian citizens. Interestingly, no such requirement was imposed on the accession states of Eastern Europe in the past. Nor does this apply to the EU-surrounded enclave of Kalinigrad, whose Russian population is virtually imprisoned by impenetrable border regulations. Can Brussels explain why a respectable Russian scientist, or a well-known Russian artist, or a legitimate Russian businessman or a legal Russian national who is also the EU member-state taxpayer residing in Europe should be subjected to absurd questioning and documentary requirements in order to travel through the 'common European space'? Does such travel have anything to do with illegal migrants from some distant Asianstan Republic running into the EU borders from Moldova or Belarus? Is EU policy under the unhealthy influence of Russo-phobia — something that is still strong in the new EU countries — Poland, Hungary and the Baltic States?

During the press conference following the signing of the new agreement, Mr. Junker went as far as saying that the new accord means that the relationship between Russia and the EU is ‘not a honeymoon, it is love'. For Russia this is a bitter love.

There is no doubt that Russia has key challenges and obligations in order for it to advance the welfare of its own people. But Europe's forgetting its own obligations seems short-sighted.


Fonte: http://www.openrepublic.org/policy_...policywatch.htm
 



 
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