The EU's new member states are spoiling Moscow's relationship with the bloc due to "phantom pains of the past," a top Russian diplomat has commented in the run up to the EU-Russia summit this week.
"With enlargement, the EU has not become an easier partner for us," Vladimir Chizhov, Moscow's ambassador to the EU told the Financial Times.
"Some, not all, of the new members have brought into the the EU their own phantom pains – people who concentrate on the sores of the past," he ...
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