Putin’s foreign policy priority – to reconstruct something looking like the old Soviet Union – has been focused on what Russia patronisingly refers to as its ‘near abroad’ – the former Soviet Republics in the Baltics, Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, where Russia is determined to retain its sphere of influence.
Eiropas un Vidusjūras reģiona valstu parlamentārā asambleja veido unikālu forumu, jo pulcē 27 ES dalībvalstu un visu Tuvo Austrumu miera procesā iesaistīto pušu pārstāvjus.