Warsaw (AFP) – European Union leaders and six ex-Soviet states hold a summit Thursday focussed on the bloc’s Eastern Partnership project, which was designed to bolster mutual ties but has been undermined by Russia’s intervention in Ukraine.The number one question at the two-day meeting in the Latvian capital Riga will be how the 28-member EU should reconcile the programme — involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine — with its relations to Russia.Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine, and alleged backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine showed that it is determined to block its former satellites …read more
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