Donald Tusk’s post-summit, post-Soviet victory tour

After securing an agreement from EU leaders on filling the bloc’s top jobs, European Council President Donald Tusk didn’t head to Disneyland Paris to celebrate. Instead, he took a victory lap even more joyful for the first eastern European to hold a presidency in Brussels: He jetted off to the former Soviet Union. While other leaders engage in public hand-wringing about the purpose and fitness of their Union, such as French President Emmanuel Macron clamoring for a major conference on the Future of Europe or Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán demanding a return to Christian values, Tusk has clung to his own vision of the EU as a beacon of freedom and democracy for parts of the world where it was long in short supply. At stops this week in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia and finally in Georgia on Thursday, the former Polish prime minister reveled in the EU’s continuing efforts to build closer ties with its eastern neighbors and directed some pointedly sharp words at Moscow. “The collapse of the Soviet Union was NOT the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” Tusk tweeted from the Black Sea coastal city of Batumi, directly rebutting a remark once made by Russian President Vladimir… Read full this story

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