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Putin wants “a Russia-EU partnership: NATO is a relic”

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MOSCOW – “I want to reiterate this once again: Russia is in favor of restoring an overall partnership with Europe”. This is what he writes Vladimir Putin in an article written on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, published exclusively in the German weekly time.

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In the long text, the Russian president addresses some of the broader issues of the difficult relations between Moscow and the West, in particular the EU: “There are many issues of common interest”, adds the head of the Kremlin: “Security and strategic stability , health and education, then digitization, the energy economy, culture, science and technology, solutions for the climate and environmental problems “. A whole range of issues on which Putin proposes a fair and creative collaboration. This is also underlined “in our proposal to create a common space of cooperation and security from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which can include different formats of integration, including the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union”.

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“We hoped that the end of the Cold War would mean a victory for all of Europe – he continues on time – However, a different approach prevailed, which was based on the expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance, which was itself a relic of the Cold War. “The Russian president highlights the historical and economic links between Germany and the former USSR in the postwar , starting with the Russian gas distribution agreement of 1970, named “the deal of the century”. “This laid the foundations for constructive interdependence – comments Putin – and subsequently made possible many large projects, such as Nord Stream “.

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But the idea of ​​a united Europe from the Atlantic coast to the Urals has been eroded by the advance of NATO, is the thesis of the Russian president. “The main cause of the growing mutual mistrust in Europe is due to the advance of the military alliance eastward, which incidentally began with the convinced Soviet leadership de facto to accept that unified Germany join NATO “.

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