The Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, together with the Russkiy Mir Foundation, the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Luxembourg and the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund organized the conference "Russia and the EU: the question of trust", Luxembourg, 28 - 29 November 2014. Peter Van Elsuwege, Professor of European Union Law; affiliated member of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER) at the Asser Institute (The Hague) and the Centre for Russian International, Socio-Political and Economic Studies (CERISE) at Ghent University, Belgium.