Ευρω-ρωσικές σχέσεις και ελληνική εξωτερική πολιτική στη σκιά της ουκρανικής κρίσης

This chapter explores the evolving relations between the EU and Russia in the shadow of the war in Ukraine. It traces the switch from interdependence, economic cooperation and management/ containment of crises in Eurasia to weaponized interdependence, geostrategic fallout and outright rivalry. In this context, it also accounts for the transformation of the Greek foreign policy along the lines of EU transformation towards Russia. This is explained in the main by Greece’s commitment to the EU’s normative liberal background and by geopolitical calculations. The latter revolve around the analogies drawn from Russian invasion in Ukraine and Turkish revisionist stance in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean that threaten Greece’s sovereignty. EU further integration in the military, defence, security and foreign policy fields also chimes both with Greece’s traditional pro-integrationist stance as well as with its ambitions to Europeanize these fields with an eye to strengthen its position vis-à-vis Turkish irridentism.