European Union - Fourteenth Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
FOREWORD—WHAT THIS REPORT IS ABOUT
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: RUSSIA TODAY
Russia: a European Country?
Box 1: Russia Population Statistics
Recent Russian History
The collapse of the Soviet Union
The Putin era: stability, restrictions on
freedom
The Political Prospect following the March
2008 Presidential elections
The Economic Situation in Russia
Russia's Economic Recovery
Problems for the Economy
Demography—The challenge of population
decline
Economic Diversification—Slow Progress?
The Climate for Business
CHAPTER 3: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
FOR RUSSIA-EU RELATIONS
The Institutions involved in EU-Russia relations
The Russian Institutional Machinery for Relations
with the EU
Box 3: The Russian Institutions
The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
Box 4: The Partnership and Cooperation
Agreement (PCA)
British Government and EU officials' attitudes
to the PCA
Russian attitudes to the PCA
CHAPTER 4: BUILDING CLOSER COOPERATION
THROUGH THE COMMON SPACES
Box 5: The Four Common Spaces
The Common Economic Space
Box 6: The Russia and the EU: Close Trading
Partners
Russian accession to the WTO
Climate Change
The Common Space of Freedom, Security and
Justice
The Fourth Common Space: Research and Education,
including Culture
CHAPTER 5: ENERGY
Box 8: Russia: A major Producer and Exporter
of Energy Commodities
Box 9: Development of EU Energy Policy
The EU's dependence on Russian energy
Table 1: EU Member States Gas Imports
from Russia
Russian Oil and Gas Production
Ownership and control
Box 10: Gazprom
Energy Politics
Improving the EU's security of supply and
The Third Energy Liberalisation Package
Box 11: The EU's Third Energy Liberalisation
Package
A European Energy Policy towards Russia?
The Energy Charter Treaty and the Transit
Protocol
Box 12: Energy Charter Treaty and Transit
Protocol
CHAPTER 6: THE COMMON NEIGHBOURHOOD AND
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES
EU-Russia Relations—The Wider Context
Russia's Attitudes to NATO and the EU
The Common Neighbourhood
Box 13: The European Neighbourhood Policy
and the Northern Dimension
Belarus and Ukraine
Moldova
The South Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Armenia,
Georgia)
Central Asia
International Issues
The Balkans: Kosovo and Serbia
Box 14: The EU and Kosovo
Cooperation on other Issues
CHAPTER 7: MANAGING THE EU'S STRATEGY
TOWARDS RUSSIA
Common Values: Human Rights and Democracy
Russian Membership of the Council of
Europe and the OSCE
Box 15: The European Court of Human Rights
of the Council of Europe
Negotiating with Russia
Russian membership of the EU?
The Importance of a Long-term Perspective
CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Russia: a European Country
Recent Russian History
The Economic Situation in Russia
Problems for the Economy
Chapter 3: The Institutional Framework for
Russia-EU Relations
The Institutions involved in EU-Russia
relations
The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
Chapter 4: Building Closer Cooperation through
the Common Spaces
The Common Economic Space
The Common Space of Freedom, Security and
Justice
The Fourth Common Space: Research and Education,
including Culture
Chapter 5: Energy
Russian Oil and Gas Production
Energy Politics
Improving the EU's security of supply and
The Third Energy Liberalisation Package
A European Energy Policy towards Russia?
Chapter 6: The Common Neighbourhood and International
Security Issues
EU-Russia Relations—The Wider Context
The Common Neighbourhood
International Issues
Chapter 7: Managing the EU's Strategy towards
Russia
Common Values: Human Rights and Democracy
Negotiating with Russia
Russia membership of the EU?
The Importance of a Long-term Perspective
APPENDIX 1: Sub-Committee C (Foreign Affairs,
Defence and Development Policy)
APPENDIX 2: List of Witnesses
APPENDIX 3: Call for Evidence
APPENDIX 4: Notes of Meetings in Moscow
APPENDIX 5: Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
APPENDIX 6: Maps
APPENDIX 7: Minutes of proceedings of
Sub-Committee C on Chapter 7 of the Report
APPENDIX 8: Recent Reports
Oral Evidence
Sir Mark Lyall Grant, Political Director,
Mr Michael Davenport,
Director, Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia Directorate
(RuSCCAD),
and Mr Jasper Thornton, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Oral Evidence, 19 July 2007
Supplementary Written Evidence
Professor Julian Cooper, Director, and Professor Phil
Hanson,
Professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern
Europe, Centre
for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
Oral Evidence, 11 October 2007
Miss Katinka Barysch, Deputy Director, Centre for European Reform,
London
Oral Evidence, 18 October 2007
Sir Roderic Lyne, former British Ambassador to Moscow, and
Mr Charles Grant,
Director, Centre for European Reform, London
Written Evidence
Oral Evidence, 25 October 2007
Professor Anatol Lieven, Chair of International Relations
and Terrorism
Studies, King's College London
Oral Evidence, 15 November 2007
Sir Anthony Brenton, British Ambassador to Moscow
Oral Evidence, 19 November 2007
Mr Eneko Landaburu, Director General of the Directorate-General
for
External Relations, Mr Gunnar Wiegand, Head of Russia Unit
and Acting Director, Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus and Central
Asia, Mr Paul Vandoren, Deputy Head of the Delegation of
the European Commission
to Russia, Mr Frédéric Maduraud, Co-ordinator
of Trade and Economic
Affairs, Russia Unit, and Mr Lars-Gunnar Wigemark, Political
Officer,
Russia Unit
Oral Evidence, 22 November 2007
Mr Robert Cooper, Director-General, Mr David Johns,
and Mr Björn
Fagerberg, Council of the European Union
Oral Evidence, 23 November 2007
Mr Patrick Child, Head of Cabinet of the Commissioner for
External
Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, RELEX
Oral Evidence, 23 November 2007
Professor Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy, University
of Oxford
Written Evidence
Oral Evidence, 17 January 2008
Mr Jim Murphy, MP, Minister for Europe, Mr Nick
Latta, Head of
Russia Section, and Mr Martin Shearman Head of CFSP Group
and
European Correspondent, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Oral Evidence, 23 January 2008
Supplementary Written Evidence
Further Supplementary Written Evidence
His Excellency Mr Yury Viktorovich Fedotov, Ambassador of
the Russian Federation, and Mr Andrey Pritsepov, Senior Counsellor
Oral Evidence, 7 February 2008
Written evidence
Dr Derek Averre, University of Birmingham
Amsterdam & Peroff, Barrister/Solicitors on behalf of
Mr Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky
Dr Vladimir Baranovsky, assisted by Sergey Utkin, Russian
Academy of Sciences
Mr David Clark, Chairman of the Russia Foundation
EU-Russia Centre
Dr Sabine Fischer, European Institute for Security Studies
Group Menatep Limited (GML)
Dr Iris Kempe, Centre for Applied Policy Research
Dr Sergei Prozorov, University of Helsinki
Mr Pekka Sutela, Head of the Bank of Finland Institute for
Economics in Transition (BOFIT)
Dr Frank Umbach, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Sir Andrew Wood GCMG, former British Ambassador to Moscow
NOTE: References in the text of the report are as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
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