ECFR Alumni · Former Senior Policy Fellow
Stefan Meister used to work for ECFR as Senior Policy Fellow.
Commentators rue the “missed opportunity” of 2004 and present the membership perspective as a panacea. Instead, they should be asking what functions and demands the EU approach should fulfil and only then, whether a membership perspective would be suitable.
On the eve of the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius Mark Leonard talks to Hryhoriy Nemyria (Chairman of the Committee on European Integration in…
Despite the authoritarian tendencies of the Russian leadership, the protests of the past year have shown that Russian society is interested in greater political participation. It is time to replace Germany's elite-dominated Russia policy with a more balanced approach.
The EU needs to develop a more realistic assessment of Russia. The often knee-jerk reactions to political developments in Moscow and oversimplified readings of Russian foreign policy inhibit a more pragmatic European approach to Russia.
Olaf Boehnke and Stefan Meister on Berlin's scenarios on conflict resolution in Ukraine
Stefan Meister on probability of Putin's new war
Stefan Meister quoted on UE sanctions imposed on Russia
Stefan Meister explains the significance of Angela Merkel's decision to kick American diplomat out of Berlin
Stefan Meister on Germany-US relations