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by Alexander Medvedev

The widespread view in Europe that Gazprom is a “political weapon of the Kremlin” is wrong, says top Gazprom executive Alexander Medvedev. He argues that it is the European Commission’s energy thinking that is cause for concern

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Policing Kosovo: The challenges awaiting EULEX

by Elisabeth Pond

Bringing the rule of law to Kosovo’s entrenched crime culture isn’t going to be easy, warns Elizabeth Pond. But she believes the EU’s peacekeepers have advantages that were denied its predecessor the “unloved UNMIK”

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Homegrown terrorism 2: Breaking the vicious circle of marginalisation and radicalisation

by Busso von Alvensleben

Countering homegrown terrorism in Europe is high on the security policy agenda, writes, Busso von Alvensleben of the German Foreign Ministry. But it will demand a much more sophisticated response than western societies have so far been capable of

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How France intends to meet all those EU presidency expectations

by Jean-Pierre Jouyet

From immigration to defence, from social to environmental issues, there are high expectations throughout the EU for France’s stint in the chair. Its Europe Minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet previews the presidency agenda

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Blueprint for a new relationship with Russia

by Roderic Lyne

The EU’s fractious relations with Moscow owe much to Europe’s “flying on the wrong compass course and heading further and further away from reality”, says Roderic Lyne. He explains how Brussels should re-set its political and economic autopilot

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Why we must learn to say No to Russia

by Vytautas Landsbergis

Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania‘s first President after the country quit the Soviet Union, explains why he is convinced that Russia is a threat to Western democracies, and warns of Russia‘s ambitions to use its energy resources as a tool in international power politics

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> On Mark Leonard and Nicu Popescu's "A five-point strategy for EU-Russia relations"
> FINLAND’s power struggles result in mixed signals on foreign policy
> On Wolfgang Petritsch's "The EU must speed up its western Balkans enlargement"

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