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AT: EU Soft Power1. Alt caus – low relations with Russia APW 07 (Associated Press Worldstream, 11/27. “EU needs closer ties with Russia to increase global influence, Gorbachev says.” Lexis.) The European Union will not have true global influence until it finds a way to achieve closer ties with Russia, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Tuesday. Gorbachev said that while it was impossible for Russia to become an EU member in the foreseeable future, the two sides needed to draw up a document setting the rules for "advanced cooperation" If the EU and Russia do not improve relations, "we will fail to make Europe a center of power in the world," Gorbachev said at start of a session of the World Political Forum, which he founded in 2003. "For Europe to become a power center ... is important for the world balance and if this doesn't happen, global processes will be even more unpredictable," Gorbachev said. "The EU needs to get a clear and independent voice in global affairs, which has not happened since the end of the Cold War," said the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner, whose policies of glasnost and perestroika openness and restructuring helped end communism in the Soviet Union and its satellites. "This is one of the reasons why we have seen major problems and mistakes in international politics the involvement of Europe should be clear and visible," Gorbachev said, mentioning the wars in the Balkans and Iraq as scenarios where Europe "did not quite measure up to its potential" and allowed the United States to achieve a "monopoly leadership." He also expressed concern that more and more Russians wanted to "choose a non-European path," desiring instead to redirect Russia's economic and political links toward Asia, while Europe doubted Russia's ability to build a true democracy. "Alienation between Russia and the EU is a very dangerous tendency and we must not allow it to happen," Gorbachev said, adding that the EU remained Russia's most important partner in economic issues, as well as in modernizing the country. "Russia will continue to move along its democratic path, but we are at best only halfway in this process. We still have a long way to go," Gorbachev concluded. 2. Partnership with the U.S. solves DPA 08 (Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 9/5. “ROUNDUP: EU looks to close ranks with US to keep global influence.” Lexis.) The European Union must close ranks with the United States if the two powers are to keep their global influence during the rise of states like China, India and Russia, EU foreign-policy chiefs said at an informal meeting on Friday. "The new American administration will, as we all of course also,have to cope with the new emerging countries: apart from Russia,which is an old power with a new assertiveness, India, Brazil andChina," EU foreign-policy commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said. "We want to be more equal partners with the US, but how can we do that? We have to raise our own game, we have to be more clear andunited in the positions we are taking, we have to be more effectiveand forthcoming in using our policy and our instruments," she said. At an informal meeting in the French city of Avignon, the foreign ministers of the EU's 27 member states discussed how to cooperate with the next US president on questions of global security such asclimate change and energy security, French Foreign Minister BernardKouchner, who chaired the meeting, said. "The world is dangerous, the return of nationalism andmicro-nationalism impose on (the EU and US) a common vision andcommon steps," he warned. "We want to set up a sort of better process, not to be surprised,not to be completely bare-handed, and not always to be obliged tothreaten someone else," he said. Ahead of the US election, scheduled for November 4, the EU is therefore set to draw up a list of the areas in which it would like to work more closely with the US, to be sent to President George WBush and the two candidates in the election. "It's not to take advantage (of the change of administration), but knowing that our American friends ... also wish that the EU should be politically present in the world's problems, and take its political place, not just as a fund-raiser but a player in its matters of peace, and sometimes of war," Kouchner said. But at the same time, he also criticized the policies of current US Vice-President Dick Cheney, who on Friday visited Ukraine on a whirlwind tour of the former Soviet Union aimed at boosting ties in the wake of August's Georgian-Russian war. Cheney "has a certain sense of protecting people, but I'm not so sure he got a lot of success with this particular sense," he said. Also at the meeting, ministers discussed with the EU's top foreign-policy figure, Javier Solana, how the bloc should update itscommon security strategy - a document written in December 2003. "There are questions like climate change and energy security whichneed an answer," Solana said, adding that he hoped to present a"short and useful" new document to EU leaders by the end of the year. Tellingly, however, the original strategy of 2003 stresses the need for the EU to project its values round the world by working withinternational organizations such as the UN and WTO. "The best protection for our security is a world of well-governeddemocratic states," it says, listing political and social reform andthe defence of human rights as "the best means of strengthening theinternational order." And the rise of Russia, China and India has alarmed EU diplomats,with the Russian-Georgian war and the collapse of WTO talks in a rowbetween China, India and the US both seen as signs that Westerndomination of the international agenda can no longer be assured. "Over the last few years, you've seen a determined effort on the part of Europe and the Americans to forge common positions on issues as diverse as Iran, Russia, and international development," British Foreign Minister David Miliband pointed out. "There's still an opportunity to work together, not at the expense of the rising powers in China and India, but as a way of binding them into the global system and making sure that responsibility is shared by all the powers in the modern world," he said. Directory: files -> documents documents -> North Mankato Taylor Library documents -> In the Red and Brown Water documents -> - documents -> I. Disaster Summary Sheet II. 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