Europe needs to forge a strategy to cope with a shaken, evolving Russia
Our vital interests from energy to security cry out for a new, fully European Ostpolitik – and one nation holds the key
Wider Europe
Gas crisis should refocus the EU’s priorities
Bulgaria was one of the countries worst affected by the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine. What lessons are there for Bulgaria to learn?
Avoiding the next gas crisis
After an unprecedented two week gas shut off during a freezing winter, Andrew Wilson looks at what can be done to stop such crises becoming an annual event
An Answer to the Russian Challenge
What role should post-Soviet Russia actually play globally and in the European order? Joschka Fischer, former German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor and co-chair of ECFR, discusses
Gaslight
Jose Ignacio Torreblanca argues that Europe is not dependant on Russian gas, but instead on an unhealthy relationship with Moscow
Cleaning up Ukraine?s Pipes
How can the EU work with Ukraine to prevent another crisis next January? Andrew Wilson discusses
Europe is failing two life and death tests. We must act together, now
Timothy Garton Ash looks at how the EU has appeared divided in both Gaza and the gas crisis
Europe’s annual gas row
Andrew Wilson offers solutions on the Ukrainian front to prevent a gas crisis next year
Golden carrots
With EU enlargement no more on offer, the EU?s neighbourhood policy faces increasing difficulties
The EU’s sovereign neighbours
How are the EU’s Eastern neighbours different from “accession neighbours”?