Czech Republic proposes to revise EU's policy towards Russia

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky voiced an intention to discuss the need to revise the policy towards Russia with the EU member states, taking into account new threats, RIA Novosti reports

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Mr. Lipavsky said he would like to propose to think of the future policy of the European Union towards the Russian Federation. “A number of fundamental principles on which relations between the EU and Russia are based need to be updated and adapted to the new reality of hostility,” he noted before the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

According Mr. Lipavsky, the European Union should prepare for Russian threats.