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The EU foreign ministers' round-table was described as "tense" on Monday (Photo: eu2007.de)

Germany under fire for weak EU-Russia summit agenda

The EU's new member states have attacked Germany for tabling weakly-worded objectives for the EU-Russia summit, amid close-to-zero prospects of launching talks on a new EU-Russia treaty when Vladimir Putin meets German chancellor Angela Merkel in Samara on 18 May.

Poland's Ana Fotyga at an EU foreign ministers gathering in Brussels on Monday (14 May) voiced Poland's "reservation" on a German EU presidency document entitled "EU objectives for the summit," saying Poland is keeping its ve...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

The EU foreign ministers' round-table was described as "tense" on Monday (Photo: eu2007.de)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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