Donald Tusk and former head of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, , photo:
CRISIS IN UKRAINE: SPECIAL SERVICE
Commenting on the acquisition by Donald Tusk, the Chair of the European Council, the newspaper “Kommersant” on Tuesday expressed doubt that the fact that the head of this structure stood politician from Eastern Europe, had a positive impact on relations with Moscow, Brussels.
According to the Russian newspaper “one of the projects for which the new head of the European Council will be able to lobby in Brussels, will probably be the creation of a European energy union”. “Consolidation of European policy on the purchase of gas, which Tusk proposed back in the spring, should make the European Union will become less dependent on Russian energy” – indicates “Kommersant”.
Official cites Russian-Polish director of the Centre for Dialogue and Agreement Bondarienkę Yuri, who believes that when Tusk should not expect a fundamental change in EU policy towards the Russian Federation.
“Tusk as a Pole knows Russia better than many in the old Europe, but first of all, the European Council is not the place in which the particular user can make changes to the foreign policy and, secondly, Poland together with Lithuania occupy probably the hardest (of the EU) in relation to the position of the Russian Federation “- rated Bondarienko.
” Kommersant “also refers to a recent interview Tusk for” Financial Times ” in which he noted that the European Union is close to understand that Russia is not a strategic partner, but a strategic issue.
PAP / agkm
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