The unresolved border issue

The Estonian newspaper calls on participants at the EU-Russia summit to address topics otherwise put on the back burner: "The question of the border treaty between Estonia and Russia is going nowhere because our European partners have not bothered to put the topic on the agenda, even though the summit which begins today would be the ideal occasion. Of course many exciting things are happening in the world and deserve to be discussed. But that cannot mean that other topics must be swept under the carpet. ... The EU member states are incapable of coming up with a common foreign policy because every country follows a different strategy. When did anyone ever point out that the unresolved border issue between Russian and Estonia concerned the entire EU? The Estonian border is also the outer limit of the EU, and the lack of a border treaty is just as much the EU's problem as it is ours."

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