BRUSSELS: New EU president Donald Tusk said Thursday the bloc needs a strategy on Russia lasting years, not just weeks or months, to cope with the problems raised by its intervention in Ukraine.
“We need a long perspective strategy… plans for years. We need to be realistic, we have to treat this as a long-term game,” Tusk said after chairing his first European Union leaders summit, which reviewed relations with Russia.
“We must go beyond being reactive and defensive,” he said, calling on Europeans to “regain our self-confidence and realise our own strength” when dealing with Russia.
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Source: theSun
