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"European virgin, barely out of his shell"
, in the words of a diplomat, facing the heir of sixty-seven years of communism and twenty years of Putinian autocratism.
The match between Josep Borrell, the head of European diplomacy, and Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, last weekend was unbalanced.
The second made short work of the first, who rushed headlong into the ambush.
The humiliation suffered by the special envoy of the European Union (EU), who wanted to discuss possible progress in the relationship with Russia but found himself criticizing the US embargo on Cuba while the Kremlin expelled, without informing him, European diplomats, does not only bring to light the naivety of the leaders of Brussels vis-a-vis Vladimir Poutine.
She reminds us to what extent the Kremlin considers Europe and the representatives of its institutions to be negligible.
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