WASHINGTON – Before boarding a plane bound for the European Union’s Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told members of her country’s Parliament that “we should…not raise any false expectations that we cannot fulfill later.” At the same time, Ukraine and Georgia continued to call for concrete deliverables from the summit – something tangible they could present to their publics. The tenor of the dialogue going into and during the summit, from EU capitals and from Brussels, provided little room for optimism about any concrete outputs. While unfortunate for Ukrainian and Georgian ambitions, this was …read more
Moving out of the Shadow of Russian Aggression
