EU to discuss immigration crisis and Russia

In addition, the European bloc’s strategy for relations with Russia will be discussed today. Renzi added that this will inevitably concern the question of the Syrian conflict, which was discussed last night after a meeting of the “Normandy Format” including Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, and Francois Hollande.

Having come out of a meeting with Obama, Renzi will probably push the pro-American line, but reality shows that Europe prefers to establish closer ties with Moscow, despite some EU politicians’ hostile statements.

It is significant that during the evening meeting in Berlin, Vladislav Surkov sat next to German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier despite the fact that Surkov was included in the so-called EU sanctions lists prohibiting him from entering Europe.