A Common Russia-EU Energy Space (The new EU-Russia Partnership Agreement, acquis communautaire, the Energy Charter and the new Russian initiative)
Article from: OGEL 2 (2009), in EU - Russia relations
Introduction
At their St Petersburg Summit in May 2003, the EU and Russia agreed to start working on the creation of four "common spaces", meaning closer cooperation and integration in economics and energy; internal security and justice; foreign and security policy; and education and culture.[1] They agreed on "road maps" for the four spaces at the Moscow Russia-EU Summit in May 2005 with the legal framework for these four spaces to be implemented within the new Partnership Agreement (PA)[2] replacing the previous Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA)[3], signed in 1994, which lasted until the ...