Russia and the European Union

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European Union Russia

The contractual relations between Russia and the European Union are regulated in the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), which came into force in December 1997. The PCA expired at the end of 2007 and has been automatically extended by 12 months since then, as long as it is not terminated by either of the contracting parties.

history

Russia does not participate in the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) because it fears that it will only be a junior partner in it. In May 2003, Russia and the European Union therefore agreed at a summit meeting in Saint Petersburg to deepen their cooperation separately within the framework of “four common spaces”. The so-called "Common Spaces" include the areas of business; Freedom, security and justice; external security; Research and Education and Cultural Aspects. A first round of negotiations took place in July 2008. After the outbreak of the war in Georgia in August 2008, negotiations were suspended for the time being. Even after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 , Russia not only rattled military sabers with patrol flights over the Baltic Sea, but also anti-western propaganda in the Russian media led to an increased rejection of the EU among the population, which at the beginning of 2015 reached a value of 70 percent.

In 2015 the Eurasian Economic Union ("Eurasian Union") was founded, which consists of the states Russia , Kazakhstan , Belarus and Armenia .

European integration of Russia

Visa exemption

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In 2010 and 2011, Russia and the EU developed a joint plan for visa-free implementation. In March 2014, the discussion was frozen because of the Crimean crisis. In 2016, the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) published a report on western relations with Russia in the wake of tensions under the title "The Eastern Question: Recommendations for Western Policy". The DGAP recommends visa-free travel "to facilitate contacts between people and to send a strong signal that there is no conflict with Russian society". In August 2017, Marieluise Beck proposed in an article in the NZZ that Russians should be visa-free in order to introduce them to Western values ​​and to promote democratic change in Russia. In October 2018, Dirk Wiese proposed the abolition of visas for young Russians to facilitate school exchanges .

See also

• List of persons on the Russian Visa Blocking List

Web links

Commons : Relations of Russia and the European Union  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• European External Action Service (EEAS): The EU's relations with Russia (English)
• Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union (English)
• Delegation of the European Union : Delegation to Russia (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birgit Schwarz, Christian Lininger, Peter Fritz: Out of balance: Is a new Cold War threatened? , Verlag Styriabooks, 2015, ISBN 978-3990403822 , section "Moscow - The dream of imperial size"
2. ^ Gesine Dornblüth: Eurasian Union: Bridge to the EU or relapse into the Soviet era? Deutschlandfunk from December 30, 2014, accessed on August 24, 2016.
3. ↑ EU, Russia ready to present visa roadmap
4. ↑ EU votes to suspend visa and economic talks , Irish Times , 7 March 2014
5. ^ The Eastern Question: Recommendations for Western Policy. In: Robert Bosch Foundation . Center for Transatlantic Relations, German Society for Foreign Policy , 2016, accessed on May 27, 2020 . 
6. ^ Daniel S. Hamilton, Stefan Meister , Ian Bond et al .: The Eastern Question: Russia, the West, and Europe's Gray Zone . Ed .: Daniel S. Hamilton, Stefan Meister. Center for Transatlantic Relations, Washington, DC 2016, ISBN 978-0-9907720-9-5 , Section II What the West Must Do 1. What the West Must Do with Russia, p. 50 (English, 272 pp., Bosch-stiftung.de [PDF; 928 kB ; accessed on May 27, 2020]): "Visa ease would be one important tool to improve people-to-people contacts and to send a strong signal that there is no conflict with Russian society."
7. ↑ How should Europe deal with Russia? . 29th August 2017.
8. ↑ Russia Commissioner wants young Russians to have no visas . October 9, 2018.