Correspondent in Brussels,
Russia will once again be on the agenda for the meeting of the Twenty-Seven next weekend in Brussels. The leaders will have, as they had requested, a report on the state of play of the EU-Russia relationship and the means which would make it possible to make Moscow listen to reason. According to a diplomat, it is time to try something else, that is to say to go beyond the sanctions and the five principles on which the Europeans agreed in 2016: full implementation of the agreements from Minsk; strengthening of relations with eastern partners and other neighbors of the Union; increasing the resilience of the Union; selective cooperation with Russia on issues of interest to the Union and support for Russian civil society. "
IF the EU does nothing, nothing will happen,
considers the same diplomat.
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now she has not done much.
It braced itself on these principles and took sanctions.
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