EU and Russia - a real partnership?

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Region: Russia grade: 10 University of Economics Prague course: Contemporary Russia language: English abstract: Russia is the biggest country in Europe as well in population as in area. Therefore it is impossible for the other big entity as well in population as in area the EU to ignore Russia. Even more because through the enlargement both now have a common border. Not only for this reason but also stemming from economic interest in the big market and its resources the EU developed multi-faced partnership with Russia.How did these partnership develop? How is it shaped? These are the first two questions this essay deals with. The Kaliningrad policy and the Energy Dialogue thereby serve as actual policy examples.But are the EU and Russia following common interests as the term partnership indicates? What is missing what are their concepts and what are the future prospects? These are the questions answered in the second part.