The bluff of membership. To what extent can the public grasp the significance and new dimension that co-operation between the EU and Russia is to assume? The texts to have emerged from the 3 October Summit, bringing together Vladimir Putin, Guy Verhofstadt and Romano Prodi are fairly explicit. But we need to dig deeper than that to understand what is looming and what, on the other hand, has been abandoned.
What's been abandoned is firstly the bluff of Russia's future accession to the EU as...