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07/21/10(Wed)23:17 No.1717740Can we stop with this retarded Russia in EU bullshit now?
>Russian
permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov commented on this
by saying that Russia has no plans of joining the EU.[24] Russian Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin has said that Russia joining the EU would not
be in the interests of either Russia or the EU, although he advocated
close integration in various dimensions including establishment of four
common spaces between Russia and the EU, including united economic,
educational and scientific spaces as it was declared in the agreement
in 2003.[25][26][27][28]
>At
present, the prospect of Russia joining the EU any time in the near
future is slim. Analysts have commented that Russia is "decades away"
from qualifying for EU membership.[29] Former German Chancellor Gerhard
Schröder has also said that though Russia must "find its place both in
NATO, and, in the longer term, in the European Union, and if conditions
are created for this to happen" that such a thing is not economically
feasible in the near future.[30] |