The article was based on the author’s presentation on the topic “Greater Europe: in the making?”, which took place at the Gaidar Forum 2020. Participants in the discussion moderated by Giles Merritt, founder and chairman of Friends of Europe, and Igor Yurgens, board member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, exchanged views on tools and mechanisms to overcome differences on the implementation of the Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok project and beyond progress on agreed issues. The author’s view on the fundamental issues of the modern international agenda represents the official position of the Russian side on cooperation on the European continent and contains a systematic assessment of the current stage of relations between Russia and the European Union.
Grushko Alexander V.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
