“I think this is going to be a good day for the European Union and for each of the six partners,” said Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs, at the opening of her meeting today with leaders of countries in the EU’s Eastern neighborhood at the just-concluded EU Summit in Riga, Latvia.Whatever the reasons for such optimistic expectations, it is far from obvious that the meeting met them. Not only did the summit avoid any discussion of the elephant in the room, namely Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, it also exposed the lack of a …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research