Judy Asks: Is the EU Too Soft on Putin?
January 21, 2021 Ian BondDirector of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform After more than twenty years, the EU has not found a successful strategy to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin does not respect weakness. Yet the EU treats each outrageous act as a one-off, worthy of mild sanctions but with early redemption possible, rather than as a pattern of behavior deserving a stronger reaction on each occasion. In the case of the attack on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in August 2020, the poison was administered in Russia, not on Western streets. But the EU sh...
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