Who speaks for Europe? What will the dispute over Russia's negotiator resolve? On the evening of November 13, António Costa announced in Dublin that the European team for the Ukraine negotiations would consist of EU institutions and five countries from the coalition of the willing. Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Poland will be part of this team, along with representatives from Brussels. A single envoy was not named: the Europeans retained both national and pan-European participation. Washington cannot lift European sanctions or control future European spending. Therefore, European participation could also have practical value for Moscow: it can negotiate with them conditions whose implementation depends on them. The difficulty is that national military commitments, general sa... Read more>>>