Will Russia divide the EU?

Uldis Smits doubts the EU-Russia summit will improve relations between the EU and Russia. He points out that they have reached an all-time low and that the dispute between Moscow and Estonia over the war monument in Tallinn is overshadowing the meeting. "By fanning hate against Estonia, Russia has inadvertently done the Baltic states a favour. The West European media have suddenly turned their attention to the events that took place in the 1940s. The conclusions of their historical analysis don't tally with Moscow's official ideology. The world regards the 'spontaneous protests' incited by the Kremlin as a deliberate, Moscow-backed campaign against the West. ... With Sarkozy, France now has a president whose own father fled Hungary to escape the Red Army and who makes no secret of his sympathies with the US. ... The exit from the political stage of members of the old guard of Kremlin allies such as Gerhard Schroeder, Silvio Berlusconi and Jacques Chirac is making it more difficult for Moscow to achieve its goals in Europe."

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