Soon to be a regular sight over Baltic skies?The Ukrainian crisis has shown up the short-term limitations of the EU’s ‘soft power’ in the face of a determined Russian regime not afraid of wielding its ‘hard power’. Though we would argue that in the lon…
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britain in europe, Carl Bildt, Crimea crisis, Estonia, EU-Russia relations, military action, nato, russia, Sikorski, soft power vs hard power, Ukraine |
January 14, 2013
In an interview with Estonian daily Postimees, the country’s bow-tie wearing President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, said that he is opposed to the idea of directly electing the President of the European Commission (something the Germans are quite keen on). H…
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britain in europe, Estonia, EU president, European Commission |
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