Russia being misread by the EU and Britain

Photo: Malta Today

Photo: Malta Today

The European Union and the United Kingdom have been accused of a ‘catastrophic misreading’ of the current situation in Kremlin, in accordance with the Ukrainian crisis.

The allegation comes as EU President Donald Tusk called British PM David Cameron to discuss about how the Union should act to the ongoing conflicts in the eastern part of Ukraine. The House of Lords committee remarked that Europe had simply ‘sleepwalked’ into the ongoing crisis. The committee’s report  contains inputs stating Britain’s participation to be not ‘active or visible enough’. The report further contained remarks from Michael Fallon, UK Defence Secretary, who has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin poses ‘real and present danger’ to the 3 states of the Baltic region. The report also holds claims stating that since quite some time, the Union’s relationship with the Russian capital Moscow had been based upon the ‘optimistic premise’ which the nation had been on a trajectory of becoming a democratic state.

‘The lack of robust analytical capacity, in both UK and EU, effectively led to a catastrophic misreading of the mood in the run-up to the crisis’ was said by the Committee Chairman Lord Tugendhat. UK had a particular sense of responsibility since it had been one of the four signatories to pledge on the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, the committee said. It further added that neither Britain nor the Union seemed to have a befitting strategic response as to how to handle Russia.

The European Council comprises of heads of states of 28 EU member nations. Meanwhile, US has said that it has been ‘deeply troubled’ by the reports of the persistent violence in Ukraine.

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