View from London: Pragmatic continuity
Russian actions in Ukraine and Syria will frustrate any attempts at a shift in UK policy on Russia
Experts & Staff
Joanna Hosa
Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Euro-Atlantic security, Ukraine, the Arctic
Languages
Polish, English, French, German, Russian, basic Ukrainian
Biography
Joanna Hosa is a policy fellow with the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Before moving to Montreal, she worked as the deputy director of the programme.
Her main areas of interest currently include security, conflict resolution, the Arctic, Russian foreign policy, and Ukrainian foreign policy.
Prior to joining ECFR, Joanna worked on democratisation, conflict prevention, human rights, and peacebuilding policies for EU institutions, think-tanks, and civil society organisations in Brussels and Paris. She held a range of positions at the European Commission, the European Union Institute for Security Studies, the Open Society European Policy Institute, the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office, and the International Federation on Human Rights. She is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and the College of Europe.
In the media
Russia [is] seen much more strongly as a close ally of the country than the EU, as a study by the European Council on Foreign Relations from last year shows
DW refers to ECFR survey results on Serbia and Russia
Joanna Hosa takes part in Al Jazeera’s ‘The Take’ podcast to talk about the standoff at the Belarus border
For him, this is about vengeance and is a matter of regime survival – meaning that he is ready to escalate further, and to seek Russia’s backing in the process
The Guardian quotes from ECFR’s latest commentary on the Polish-Belarus border crisis,
If Poland is to cooperate with the EU on this, these two issues have to be disassociated as much as possible
The EU should have to convince Poland that the migration crisis in Belarus won’t be linked to the rule-of-law fight, thinks Joanna Hosa
These countries aren’t comfortable with the methods that Poland is using to repel the migrants, but criticism remains muted, because the methods are effective
That unity is probably, in part, a reflection that the Polish tactics are working, believes Joanna Hosa