Source : Fondation Robert Schuman

Proposition 0 : Le président de la Commission doit être le leader d'une majorité parlementaire et le représentant (désigné à l'avance) du groupe politique ayant obtenu le plus grand nombre de sièges au Parlement européen lors des élections européennes.  

Source : Fondation Robert Schuman

The following scenarios are constructed using as parameters the criteria that guided the design of the EU sanctions package, specified in a joint letter by the President of the European Council and the European Commission. These include: “effectiveness, cost/benefit, balance across sectors and Member States, international coordination, reversibility/scalability, legal defensibility/ease of enforcement”. The following scenarios are designed as possible options, and conceived in a neutral fashion. Each scenario includes an assessment of the likelihood that each will materialise.

European cooperation cannot be contemplated without a definition of what Europe is. The nations of Europe share in common civilization values, roots and a common history drawn in Greece, Ancient Rome, Christendom and humanism of Renaissance. In the recent history, European countries have endured conflicts and wars often linked to ambitions of building empires by subordination and denying national realities. We need to be wary of this drifting that today characterizes the European Union.

La coopération européenne ne peut s’envisager sans définir ce qu’est l’Europe. Les nations d’Europe ont en commun des valeurs de civilisation, des racines et une histoire communes qu’elles puisent dans la Grèce et la Rome Antique puis la Chrétienté et l’humanisme de la Renaissance. Dans l’histoire, même assez récente, les pays d’Europe ont connu des conflits et des guerres souvent liés aux velléités d’ériger des empires en subordonnant et en niant les réalités nationales. Il faut se garder de cette dérive qui caractérise aujourd’hui l’Union européenne.

Anti-establishment right-wing parties are expected to increase their share of seats significantly, and could become the second force in the European Parliament (20% with 147 seats) ahead of S&D should they agree to coalesce in spite of their differences. Eurosceptic parties across the continent will improve on their positions and could possibly make up a third of the European Parliament seats after the elections in May.

On March 12, 2019 representatives of the Historical Perspective Foundation and the Russian Historical Society, gathered for a joint conference in Moscow which was titled: “The Crimean Triangle: Crimea-Russia-Ukraine 1954-2014”

Vladimir Konstantinov, Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea: “Crimea is a sacred place for Russia. The referendum in the Crimea came as a signal for the entire Russian world, for the entire world community about the agenda and the potential of modern Russia.”

1. Liga (Italy): 26 seats
2. Rassemblement National (RN): 20 seats
3. AfD (Germany): 11 seats
4. UKIP (UK): 9 seats
5. Vox (Spain): 6 seats
6. PS (Finland): 3 seats
7. FPO (Austria): 5 seats
8. DF (Denmark): 2 seats
9. PVV (Netherlands): 2 seats
10. VB (Belgium): 1 seat
11. SVG (Slovakia): 1 seat
12. SPD (Czech Republic): 1 seat
13. Volya (Bulgaria): 1 seat

Total: 88 seats

Source: Author: Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member