Bulletin n. 1/2015 | ||
June 2015 | ||
Dzurinda Mikuláš |
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Europe’s defining challenges | ||
in European View , vol. 13, n. 2, December, Special Issue: Europe’s Defining Challenges , 2014 , 187-188 | ||
Europe is currently facing challenges on many fronts: internally and externally, but also in the short and long term. The events in 2014 have reminded us that we are privileged to live in a European community of values that secures our peace and prosperity. The Russian aggression at the very borders of the EU has thrown Ukraine, a country that aspires to EU membership, into political turmoil. It is the forces that confront us now, such as Putin’s Russia with its neo-imperial aspirations, and our political responses to them that will define the EU for years to come. | ||