Antieuropäische und russlandfeindliche Tendenzen in der Europäischen Union
Journal: Europäisches Journal für Minderheitenfragen
Year: 2018

The Preamble of the Treaty of the European Union (TEU) explicitly refers to “the historic importance of the ending of the division of the European continent and the need to create firm bases for the construction of the future Europe.” In this context Russian Nobel prize winner Gorbatchov repeatedly propagated the vision of a “common European house,” which was later on taken up and modified by Putin’s idea of a “common economic space from Lisbon to Vladivostok.” Yet, EU and NATO, strongly influen