Valdai Club

2016

Russia and EU in a Changing Europe

Oleg Barabanov

Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Professor, MGIMO University; Professor, Russian Academy of Sciences

The old model of relations between Russia and the European Union has run out of steam, but both sides face serious development problems, which force them to revisit their strategies. The programme objective is to try to understand how Russia-EU relations could look after the current crisis.

Reports

Report: The Euro vs. Europe

The European Union is currently experiencing a profound crisis that goes beyond the economy and touches on its very identity. And it was the euro that caused this crisis. Intended as the pinnacle of European integration, the single currency paved the way to the EU’s decline.

Report: Brexit, the City, and the Crisis of Conservatism

Thanks to the role of money and entrenched class power in electoral processes, the history of liberal democracy is not exactly littered with instances of the people springing nasty surprises on the powers in the land. That, however, was precisely what the British electorate did on June 23, 2016 when it voted to leave the European Union in the face of impressive ruling class and political establishment opposition.

Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman

Valdai Papers

Power-Sharing in Europe: Models for the Ukraine?

At St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2016, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi reiterated his government’s firm belief that the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol model of conflict resolution could serve to get past the current impasse in the Ukraine.

Vincent Della Sala

Winter and Spring Together, Geocultural Signs of Renewal Throughout Europe

The terrorist act in Nice, on top of this, has revealed serious political constraints of the work of intelligence agencies.

Thomas Flichy de La Neuville