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Politico (16 June 2021)

BY HANS VON DER BURCHARD AND JACOPO BARIGAZZI

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Wednesday warned that Europe’s relationship with Russia is only going to get worse.

Yet his proposal for what to do about it received a notably cold reception from EU diplomats.

Speaking in Brussels on the day that U.S. President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held a summit in Geneva, Borrell said the EU “needs to be realistic and prepare for a further downturn of our relations with Russia” — which have already reached their lowest level since the end of the Cold War.

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