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None of these practices are new. The last decade or so Russia excelled at such behaviour (Photo: Loreline Merelle)

Russia showed Turkey and China how to bully EU

Covid-19 might have slowed down the global economy, but not the world's descent into ever brutish ways to conduct international politics.

The European Union seems determined to 'speak the language of power' in principle, but it is still shy about doing it in practice.

In spring, China's international outreach switched remarkably quickly from self-adver...

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The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s, not those of EUobserver

Author Bio

Nicu Popescu is the director of the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations and former minister of foreign affairs of Moldova.

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