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The EU and Russia: All smiles and no action?
The relationship between the EU and Russia has been warmer than it has been for year. Yet there has been little progress on a new bilateral treaty, an energy dialogue, the new modernisation partnership or security co-operation. In this new CER policy brief, Katinka Barysch looks at the reasons for continued stagnation and offers some ideas for the EU to deal with a Russia that fails to reform.