The Guardian: West’s rift with Russia ‘will last until Vladimir Putin goes’
Outgoing EU envoy to Moscow says Brussels should help Ukraine by offering it a path to membership.
Relations between Russia and the EU are stuck in a “deep and acute” crisis and are unlikely to improve until President Vladimir Putin leaves office and the conflict in Ukraine is resolved – events that could be many years away, the outgoing EU ambassador to Moscow has said.
Vygaudas Ušackas, who has been in the post since 2013, said the EU must offer Ukraine a path to membership of the bloc if it wants to resist Russian attempts to bring the former Soviet state more firmly back under Moscow’s control.
“As I leave my post, I am pessimistic that we will be able to return to a normal partnership in the near future,” Ušackas wrote in a letter published in the Observer on Sunday. “The differences between us are vast and hinge on principles of European security.”
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WNU Editor: Differences between the EU and Russia are not going to end when Putin is gone. And as for Ukraine .... Crimea is never going to go back to Ukraine, and with the Ukraine government's new education laws that prohibit Russian, a guarantee that eastern Ukraine will not agree to any political settlement with Kiev. To put it bluntly, this EU - Russia split is going to last a long time.
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