It was important to avoid "wishful thinking": President Putin, in his speech in Munich, had made clear that Russia was now seeking to "regain influence over the Baltic states and then those of the former Warsaw Pact", using the energy boom and Russians outside Russia as his tools.
Ar ES programmām mēs varam veicināt Eiropas zinātnes attīstību," atzīmēja T. Hunt, tomēr nožēlojot, ka Eiropā izcilība, ja vien nav runa par sasniegumiem "futbolā vai operā", netiek novērtēta.